sfruculiavo few days ago for the web when you meet Alexander. I come to discover a story without end, and I find that my friends also know him already.
And tell me?
Well .. However now I do not know where to start, because Alex is so hot that a person can not find the words.
I'm sure, like me, you will know by the many beautiful things that have written about him.
of his work did not know 'a lot. Teach? It 's a luminary of science?
I know he has written two books and the second is the story of his experience as a volunteer in the ex-Yu and then ....
A review says
"Alexander in this book never speaks of" beneficiaries ", about people with names, faces smiling, crying. It is not only about" them. "It's about whether himself, his emotions, relationships intertwined in years, anger, love, of bitterness and hope. It reminds us that cooperation and exchange is not a gift.
This book, then, that Alexander of Serbia has known through the activities which, together with a group of volunteers has achieved over the years. In fact the Serbs knew that, indeed, better yet, the people who live in Serbia, because Alex is never a question of nation and not yield to that tendency to romantic iconify entire population enrolled in Mass in the armies of "good" or of "bad". People are always at the center of his attention.
not think why this book is less "political."
On the contrary it is from stories that are told that the book is clearly a complaint, no appeal, the aggression of NATO to the (then) Yugoslavia and the responsibility that Italy is set against equity and then, of no interest at all consequences of that war, the first having created hundreds of thousands of refugees and foster a true ethnic cleansing where stated instead of wanting to avoid until the hasty statement of recognition of the unilateral separation of Kosovo, potentially loose cannon heralding further tragedies in the heart of Europe. "
The book is titled A smile for
every tear
"low-altitude flights in a post-war Yugoslavia" - Alessandro Di Meo
A smile for every tear.
It 's the phrase that says Beba mother, because she cried so much for Sanja, the daughter drowned in river. Many smiles, instead of all those tears, all that pain.
A book that is not novel or book of short stories ... he wanted to be gathering stabs, stab ... stomach, liver, eyes, heart of everyone who will read it.
A book, therefore, of low blows.
Because war is bad, always.
Often, we forget that, as we are engrossed in our daily activities, as if they only exist, almost only that they should live.
All, however, we may one day wake up and realize that everything changes and falls into a vortex that will swallow us.
Because war is unfair, does not have codes of ethics, not looking at anyone. And the losers are always the same, the weakest. Among these children.
But just because it is a book where you talk about children, each with its name, each with its own image back to a voice, a gesture, a look at it is, then, a book of smiles.
Why the smile will always win out.
We must force us to think. Even when you cry, though it seems not there be more the reason, you have to smile.
And then, the smile of Beba we continue to believe ...
Alessandro Di Meo Zagarolo and lives and works in Rome. Years involved with the association "Un Ponte per ..." in voluntary work in solidarity with the victims of "permanent war", he was responsible in particular for refugees and displaced persons in the former Yugoslavia. He has already published in the past for Multimage editions, a collection of short stories-complaint against the insidious racism and rampant in our society: "When I chose the place where I was born." Part of the proceeds of the sale of the book will go towards financing the activities of "Un Ponte per ..." in Serbia.
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