One of the literary surprises this year in Europe is set in a Vatican hospital. It's called \u201cLa casa degil sguardi,\u201d \u201cThe house of gazes.\u201d It's Italian poet Daniele Mencarelli's first novel.<\/p>\n
DANIELE MENCARELLI<\/strong> The events take place in Rome and in the Bambino Ges\u00f9 children's hospital. It's a story of redemption, in which the protagonist, a young man struggling with alcohol addiction, rediscovers life while working as a janitor.<\/p>\n DANIELE MENCARELLI<\/strong> The novel is a window looking at hope, an invitation to look without fear, to see the souls of the people around us.<\/p>\n DANIELE MENCARELLI<\/strong> \u201cLa casa degli sguardi\u201d is now available in Spanish and will soon be published in English, French and German.<\/p>\n Daniele Mencarelli has already published the prequel to this story in Italian. He was a finalist for the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award.<\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal<\/p>\n Translation: CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 15, 2020. Daniele Mencarelli tells the powerful redemption story of a young man struggling with addiction, who rediscovers his worth while working as a janitor in a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wfeZ_UWLadw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrodanielemencarellieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrodanielemencarelliint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAuthor, \u201cLa casa degli sguardi\u201d
\n\u201cI've learned that there are places of seemingly great suffering that, in reality, manage to place a human being in contact with him- or herself, and with others. That's only if we're willing to search for part of ourselves in others, and to have a little faith in friendship, in alternativeness, in the importance of others.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAuthor, \u201cLa casa degli sguardi\u201d
\n\u201cThis book has given me a certainty: that each one of us finds greatness, finds love, has important encounters. It's only our own openness to these encounters that perpetuates them and keeps them alive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAuthor, \u201cLa casa degli sguardi\u201d
\n\u201cWith so much technology and so many cellphones, we look a lot less at reality. I think it's a serious danger, because it's only through a gaze that the wonderful spread of relationships that belong to us as human beings is born.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n