In his first work, Andrea Marchesini, a cardiologist from Bologna - Italy, writes about his love for Africa. L'Orafo (The GoldSmith) - Giraldi publisher, is a long tale in which the lives of protagonists wind together, around an old manuscript besides which, as Pier Angelo Consoli writes, "the second chance that anyone should have in his life" is hidden: in love choices, in life choices.
Marco and Constance start again to write a book after many years. And Africa's vast landscape is the setting where the story develops. A second book is self contained within the first one, as a completion: Ii - Il filo e le perle (Ii - The string and the pearls), a flow of memories in the first person during a lifetime (Luca Soncini)


From: La Repubblica, 19 February 2008.