Giuditta e l’orecchio del diavolo
In the fall of 1944, a blind girl named Giuditta is taken to Caterina, wife of Sandokan, the leader of the partisans. She has escaped deportation, but she is strange: she is able to walk mountain paths, she knows remedies like a healer, she talks to animals. One day she discovers the Devil’s Ear, a mysterious place where she can hear voices coming from the valley. Every day she listens, and she warns the partisans when the Germans are coming. On Christmas Eve, Sandokan and his men go to town for mass but are surrounded by Germans at the church: they were betrayed. Giuditta goes back to the Devil’s Ear and listens day and night, to find out who the traitors are.
Francesco D’Adamo is the author of hits, such as: Storia di Iqbal (Premio Cento 2002), Oh, freedom! (Gigante delle Langhe Award 2015), Oh, Harriet! (Childhood Literature Prize Sardinia 2019; Finalista Premio Cento 2019); Dalla parte sbagliata (Finalist Strega Girls and Boys Award 2015). D’Adamo talks about the world to those he defines as ‘adults who are provisionally 13/14 years old’. His books have been translated all over the world. With Giuditta e l’Orecchio del Diavolo he won the Strega Girls and Boys Award 2022. 11 +.
