Cagliari Airport Library, the first library in an Italian airport hosted author Piergiorgio Pulixi
The author presented his new novel "The Black Cat Bookstore"
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Appointments conceived by the Cagliari Airport Library (first example in Italy) to promote a cultural discussion on travel that takes off from the airport to Landing on ever-changing spaces and ideas.
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Tuesday, March 21 the protagonist was Piergiorgio Pulixi with his novel "The Black Cat Bookstore," published in January this year by Marsilio in the Fireflies series.
The meeting between the author and his audience was moderated by the Jane Austen Club Sardinia, a women's club that started as a reading group and evolved into an inclusive project with literature and the love of books at its center.
For the Cagliari writer, in his own right one of the brightest crime writers of the new generation, the choice to meet readers at the Cagliari Airport library is by no means accidental; on the contrary, "When I learn about interesting projects, locales, cultural events or anything that represents an excellence of our island, I always try to somehow include it in one of my novels so that the novel acts as a sounding board for a project I believe in and wish to share. For this it was really natural to set some scenes of the new novel at the Cagliari Airport Library, because it is a wonderful reality that gives prestige to the airport and the city of Cagliari as a whole."
"I wanted my readers, especially those who live on the peninsula, to learn about this extraordinary project, original and innovative, which offers a wonderful service to all travelers, starting with books, which in themselves are symbolic of travel: an emotional journey, not a physical one, but one that allows us to reach countless destinations, both existential and geographical," continues Pulixi, who then concludes, "Many readers have asked me whether the idea of a library inside an airport was a figment of my imagination or on the contrary was something real. To my answer that it was all true, several responded by saying that they now had one more reason to come and visit Cagliari."
'TRAVELING TOWARDS' is the title of a series of cultural initiatives taking place in the spaces of the Cagliari Airport Library opened on June 25, 2021. The idea was born with the aim of promoting reading in a journey to be undertaken together and in which one can meet writers, listen to stories and participate in debates and cultural insights. The journey starts from sharing all the emotions that arise from reading and listening and reaches far through the ideas, places and feelings that are evoked from time to time.
THE BOOK.
The black cat library is a suspenseful and humorous detective story that talks about books and pays homage to the mystery classics. Readers are the real protagonists of this story.
A great fan of detective stories, Marzio Montecristo opened a small bookstore specializing in detective novels a few years ago in downtown Cagliari. The bookstore's name, Les Chats Noirs, is a tribute to the two black cats who showed up in the store one day and never left, whom he nicknamed Miss Marple and Poirot. Despite the owner's bad temper, the bookstore is very busy, and it is Patricia, Montecristo's young co-worker of Eritrean descent, who saves customers from the owner's rants. The bookstore also has a reading group, "the Tuesday Detectives," a handful of super mystery experts who gather after closing to discuss the week's novel. It is an ill-assembled but close-knit gang, of which Marzio has become the soul, despite himself. A year earlier the group proved capable of helping an old friend of Montecristo solve a real case everyone considered hopeless. Now Superintendent Angela Dimase returns to ask for their cooperation in an investigation that is taking her sleep away: a hooded man showed up at a family's home, pinned down two spouses and their little son, and intimated to the man to choose who should die between his wife and son; if he did not decide within a minute, he would kill them both. The sadistic killer is soon nicknamed the "hourglass killer," since he always leaves one at the crime scene. Will the unlikely "Tuesday detectives" manage to unravel even this case, as intricate as it is chilling, allowing the police to stop the vicious killer before he strikes again?
THE AUTHOR.
Piergiorgio Pulixi was born in Cagliari in 1982 and lives in Milan. He has published several crime novels with which he has won numerous awards including the 2019 Scerbanenco Prize for the best noir of the year. He is considered one of the leading exponents of the new generation of noir and thriller writers. His novels have been translated in France, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
