Domenico Battaglia, poet and writer from La Maddalena, recently published his second novel in “isulanu” through the publisher Paolo Sorba. The title is “L'adóri du mari”, over 200 pages, with Italian translation.
Inspired by a story written a few years ago and inspired by a true story, Battaglia tells the life of a La Maddalena boy, a seafarer from his youth, with embarkations that began during the Second World War and which subsequently led him to travel the world, up to arrive in Argentina. But it is the love life that marks the history of man who developed one on his native island and the other in America, with psychological and material implications that try him hard.
Back in retirement on his island, "he would like to open his soul to someone, tell his life, the few joys, but above all the anger accumulated over time"; but his island has changed, especially in the people, some of whom are no longer there and others are busy and distracted in living their… lives. «Only a "Madonnina", closed in her newsstand, can open her heart to him...». It's the story of a loser, hers, but it doesn't necessarily end like this...
Domenico Battaglia, born in 1954, a retired state employee, for years has dedicated himself above all to poetry in dialect with which he has won numerous awards, also publishing the collection of poems "Prufummu di scavvicciu". For some years he has shifted his attention to prose, always with the publisher Paolo Sorba, with whom he has published “U culori du tempu”, the autobiographical book “Scusa Ameri” and the novel “Fiore d'agretta”.
