L'Uomo Di Sale: Il Mio Venezuela Rosso Sangue E Smeraldo

Shut up or I ll kill you! says again the fierce salt man, as if the blade aimed at the throat alone weren t enough to represent a dreadful threat- Venezuela is the country that Giovanni Cappellin chose in the early 80 s to start again from scratch, after a prestigious degree at the Bocconi University.It s the country of Amazon s pristine forests.And it s Guajiros wild land as well.Only in Caracas from fifty to eighty people are killed every weekend in violent gunfights.These pages describe both an enchanting and a violent reality: from the author s professional successes to the encounter with his wife Lidia, until July 2011 when, during a brief holiday to La Tortuga Island, he was attacked together with his daughter. What follows is a long night of terror, described in all its most horrible details, and yet able to revive in the protagonists a new love for life.With an impressive and fascinating style, Cappellin makes us perceive the charm of a cobalt blue paradise, behind which an awful darkness hides.