"Franco Nasi has created a character, an Italian naïf, who reflects movingly and humourously on the oddity of what he finds as he travels round his home province of Reggio Emilia, then visits America, disclosing as he does so the fundamental strangeness of the world when it is viewed with fresh eyes. If there are 'blues' to be heard, then this is partly because any description of the world, however successful it may be, is bound to go awry when required to pass into a second language. At once story and reflection, essay and narrative, this cahier is a celebration of what it is in the space between languages that both unites and divides us. The cahier is completed by images taken from a sketch-book kept by the Italian artist Massimo Antonaci"--Jacket.
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