The traveling literary festival Éntula starts again tomorrow, Thursday, January 16, and it does so with a new voice that tells of the sea, family and secrets of the past. At the center of the opening night, the novel “Adesso sì”, the latest work by the Cagliari writer Roberto Delogu, available in bookstores from today (Il Maestrale edition). The event will be held at 6 pm at the headquarters of the Fondazione di Sardegna in Cagliari, with a dialogue between the author and Massimo Deiana, enriched by the interventions of Daniele Caria and Emanuele Pisano, in collaboration with the Ubik bookshop.
Delogu, a lawyer by profession and a writer by vocation, invites readers to set sail with the Tanchis family, protagonists of a story suspended between past and present. The narrative revolves around the charismatic grandfather Armando, a former sailor with a tormented past and an unusual crew : his nephew Massimo, an obese and solitary teenager, his uncle Zazà, reckless and unpredictable, and the cormorant Bobbissolo, a trusted companion on an adventure that will take them from Sardinia to the Egadi Islands.
Set in Sardinia in the 90s, the novel mixes the freshness of long youthful summers with the depth of a past that resurfaces. The sailing trip becomes an opportunity for Armando to return to the places where, fifty years earlier, he had served during the war . A journey that is not only physical, but emotional, where secrets, old wounds and the echo of a song - "Adesso sì", the song that made the protagonist famous - intertwine in a story that speaks of growth, madness and reconciliation.
Delogu, in his fifth novel , confirms his ability to mix intimate and universal themes, offering a lucid and poetic look at the complexity of family ties.