A really strange, particular, exceptional fact. An event never seen and, perhaps, never imagined. Something that could change the world: a group of crows lights up a fire. It is the narrative starting point from which it starts Giacomo Ceccarelli in his debut novel ‘Cornacchio’, Published by the Feltrinelli publishing house. A novel in which you can breathe the anxiety of freedom, which unites everyone, and the fear of losing it. The book will be presented on May 5, at 7 pm, in the Colibrì bookshop in Milan.
“In a few hours – he writes in the first lines of his novel Ceccarelli – The news is on the front pages of newspapers around the world. Obviously there is also a video, which immediately became viral, posted on Twitter by a young ornithologist, this Olga Leffman, and shot in the Bowland forest, Lancashire, in the north -west of England. Hard seventy -five seconds. At the beginning you think of a fake, then the experts, They confirm the originality.
An action, writes Ceccarelli, which ends with “forty centimeters of flame. Not even. They have a circle. A circle of black feathers. If they had their hands, if they would be tightening them”. The scene spreads rapidly, pushed as it is from a video that, in a short time, becomes viral. He passes from his mouth to his mouth, also evaluating the boundaries of ‘Big Brother’ impressing the insiders. But above all, impressive the competitor Pepo DJ, affected in particular by the evolutionary passage of which the crorn were protagonists. Not only that: to be affected by the scene, transmitted to unified networks, it is also the house jasmine. The images push her to free one of the parrots of the gentlemen from whom they work. Thus returns the freedom to Girolamo, a ruby red parrocchetto, which joins a flock of horizons on the road. Even Luca, a boy who has been dreaming of the feathers for some time, lets himself be taken by the video. His friend Enzo, on the other hand, believes he lives a nightmare with open eyes and from his balcony begins to massacre cornacchio to the cry of ‘the fire is ours’. Different reactions that, page after page, stage the great desire for freedom cultivated by the protagonists of the book that confuses with the terror of losing it. A book, that of Ceccarelli, who talks about cages, those in which each of us – even if unconsciously – is locked up and from which fighting tries to escape.