Un giorno verrà

Lupo and Nicola were born at the dawn of the new century, the 1900s, the last of the offspring of Luigi Ceresa, a baker in the Marche village of Serra de’ Conti. The Ceresa family’s life was extremely hard, like that of all the inhabitants of Serra, poor sharecroppers who saw their children and hopes die one after another. Lupo, vigorous and rebellious, and the fragile Nicola survived perhaps thanks to the mysterious force that united them despite their differences. Zari was born in Sudan but was kidnapped as a child and then converted to Catholicism: few people know that this is the origin of Moretta, the abbess of the cloistered convent of Serra, who with her extraordinary music and strength of character is a point of reference for the whole community. Meanwhile, the winds of history are blowing strongly: socialist and anarchist ideas, the Red Week of 1914, the Great War, the Spanish flu epidemic… Lupo, Nicola and Moretta will have to resist, open their eyes and discover the secret that binds their lives together. The story of Moretta – Sister Maria Giuseppina Benvenuti, formerly Zeinab Alif, still an object of worship today – is a true story, while the events involving the Ceresa brothers are fictional. but in these pages, each character is followed with the same gaze, the result of rigorous historical documentation and ardent spiritual participation, and told with tense, vibrant writing, capable of digging into the folds of time and drawing out fragments of vivid emotion. In her second novel, Giulia Caminito chooses to give a voice to those who have never had one, to those who are last by birth or by choice: and thus she tackles the great theme of faith, of salvific hope in a better world.