Saturday 14 settembre at 17, the book by Roberto Di Sante Corri dall’Inferno a Central Park (Run From Hell To Central Park) will be presented.
The book is on the story of a man who recovers from a very serious illness preparing to run at the New York Marathon.
Journalist Moreno Carlini will moderate the presentation at the Sala affrescata della Pastorale Giovanile in Piazza Garibaldi.
Free admission
A man falls from the fourth floor, the only choice he has left to stop suffering. As he falls he expresses his last wish. His body hangs a few inches above the ground. A thread of light descends from above, he clings to it and tries to escape from the dark well that has swallowed him: depression. Aldo Amedei is a successful journalist who has lost everything, even his own dreams. The past is regret, the present is populated by monsters and ghosts, but he tries to follow that thread, that mad desire that had kept him alive: running the New York marathon. He doesn’t even know why he expressed it, he who takes the car just to cover one hundred meters. He begins to run like a fugitive hunted by his nightmares. He falls and gets up again. He falls again and gets back on his feet, and every time it hurts more and more. But he doesn’t give up. For love and with the love of Teresa, his young companion. Spitting his soul out along streets full of fatigue, angels and vultures and returning to life, to passion, to dreams with the help of a traveling doctor, an unexpected coach and a crazier grandson than he. Becoming another one, imprinting the others in his own heart. Between laughter, surprises and new emotions. But his enemies do not give up, they pursue him, determined to bring him back to the well. Everything comes back into play, in the last challenge, between life and death: 42 kilometers and 195 meters. Against the wind and everything. From Hell to Central Park.
Roberto Di Sante is a journalist who works for Il Messaggero. Twice the winner of the Premio Nazionale Cronista in 1994 and 1997, he also authored theatre works, including his “Tassinar in Love”, that has been staged for four seasons in Rome.