Who hides behind the pseudonym Cosimo D'Orrì? Perhaps a high-ranking state official working in a ministry in Rome. It is a possible trace, to be explored further. However, there is one certainty.
His literary debut, with the book "The Tule Ghosts", is a happy break into the publishing world for its original plot, effective style and dry and evocative writing. The mysterious writer, reached by phone, continues to remain in the shadows even if he provides some more data: «Tule is a town in Sardinia. I am Sardinian, I love my land and I had to choose a place of my soul to set my novel."
He wrote a “ghost story” which is a well-established literary and cinematographic genre. A ghost story, with significant references to reality, which generates chills and fears. What happens in Tula? «The streets of this small town are crossed by ghosts. There are ghosts created ad hoc, but also those of great history. I think that ghosts help us, this is the function of the fantastic story, to understand individual and collective fears. I believe that a "ghost story" can have a therapeutic effect and help us understand the anxieties of everyday life, manage them and perhaps even overcome them."
<p>The cover of the book</p>In Tule three friends, Francesco, Antonio and Mattia, want to shed light on disturbing events that occurred in the town, but they are dragged into the vortex of an ancient legend that leads them to timeless places, hidden in the heart of an island that preserves, in centuries, many secrets. The three "investigators" encounter unsavory creatures and authoritative figures who point the right path. Will they be able to unravel the tangled mess of mysteries? You have to read the 140 pages of the book (Youcanprint, 14.50 euros), to satisfy all your curiosities.
It remains to be said about the role of the two ghosts who come from great history: Salvador Allende and Aldo Moro. Emblematic cases of the alternating events of the twentieth century. Two great and tragic destinies that we continue to deal with.
«Moro's death - explains Cosimo D'Orrì - created a caesura in the path of cultural, economic and political growth of Italy. I don't want to say that our country has regressed, it has simply chosen other paths, whether right or wrong." Thus even the ghosts of Allende and Moro pass through the winding streets of Tule, like memories projected into the present.
