Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali

Children ask questions. Sometimes embarrassing, outlandish, definitive. They want to know why we are born, where we go after death, why pain exists, what happiness is. And adults are forced to find answers. It is an exercise between philosophy and candor, forcing us to revise our reassuring value system every time. Because we cannot disappoint them. Nor deceive them. We were like them not too long ago. In this intense, surprisingly joyful, narrative inquiry, Concita De Gregorio asks us to follow her to places removed from contemporary discourse. Funerals and illnesses, failures and defeats, when observed and experienced with dignity and sharing, become opportunities for growth, for joy, for fulfillment. There is no worse anguish than loneliness and silence, but there is no better relief than going through pain and turning it into strength. Così è la vita is available in a new uniform edition of Super ET paperbacks dedicated to Concita De Gregorio's titles.

Publication date: 31.05.2016
Publisher: Einaudi - Super ET