The birth of the book directly from the words of Valentina:
Last summer, shortly after he returned from Kenya, speaking with Gaia Amaducci, who besides being my publisher is also a friend, the last few months in East Africa and the new Italian daily, it bounced my way a very interesting proposal that I have not hesitated to seize with enthusiasm and a sense of challenge: to write of Africa and Italy. Writing with a critical eye and at the same time telling little known fact, those realities that rarely touch the Italian imagination. Write Africa through two looks and two different experiences, mine and that of my partner Peter, two different lives lived on the same continent at different times and different coordinates.
I spent five months punctuated by strong pace of a writing staff, genuinely original for me, wanting to tell, to choose a single preferred route that would be viable in the pages of a book without getting lost and not trip over the deja-vu. For as in Africa is easy to get lost, so is the words on the sheet of paper when trying to stop the flow of memories and emotions.
So in addition to a geographical itinerary and time, I followed one of the characters and feelings, ideas and perceptions, a route without written details, because it must be said that Africa should not be explained, it says. And that is what happens between the pages of this "Journey inverted" .
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