UNA FERITA ITALIANA
Book
Author: LISA CAMILLO
Publishing House: Ponte Alle Grazie
THE BOOK
A book based on the acclaimed Australian feature documentary Balentes – The Brave Ones. A book that is shocking the whole Italy.
Back from Australia, where she lived for fifteen years, in order to make a documentary on the famous Aga Khan’s international holiday destination, Costa Smeralda, the place that saw her as a child, Lisa Camillo does not find the paradise she remembered, but a land of conquest: economic interests and military servitude have literally destroyed one of the most beautiful regions of Italy.
Experimental military areas, chemical industries, a destroyed economic fabric. Radioactive peninsulas, beaches destroyed by bombs, missiles lying on the seabed. Whispered stories of deformed foetuses, tumours, leukemias, heads of monstrous cattle. The drama of the sick militaries and their families; pathologies such as those of Italian soldiers contaminated by depleted uranium in Bosnia and in Afghanistan. Trials, the silence of military leaders, the absence and denial of the Government, triangulations and rivers of money. And then, those Sardinians who do not give up and fight for their land: prosecutors, journalists, activists and ordinary citizens, protagonists of a history of resistance ignored, but which has lasted for decades: the author also tells it in her documentary Balentes - the Brave Ones, which it was distributed in many countries and cinemas. A book that tells the most intimate Sardinia, a story of pride and fear, courage and of frightening truths and criminal lies.
It is the secret story of an Italian hidden wound. A wound that is still bleeding.