A captivating plot with countless historical details to uncover: a Cagliari never seen before, a city that's always a surprise. A perfect mystery!

The Sardara municipal library and the Condilibriamo Association are pleased to present Francesco Abate's book "The Calafati's Conspiracy"

Friday, October 28th at 5:30 pm.

Francesco Abate (Cagliari, 1964) is a novelist and journalist for the daily newspaper L'Unione Sarda. He began working for Radio Alter at just fourteen. This was followed by collaborations with Radio Città, Radio Flash, Studio 96, and Radiolina, where he hosted programs dedicated to indie music. In 1998, he published the novel Mister Dabolina; the following year, with Ultima di Campionato, he won the Solinas Prize. The work, originally intended as a film, was later adapted and performed in several Italian theaters, becoming a novel in 2004. A collaboration with writer Massimo Carlotto dates back to 2006, resulting in Catfish, Mi fido di te, and L'albero dei microchip. In 2010, he co-wrote the novel Chiedo scusa with actor Valerio Mastrandrea (aka Saverio Mastrofranco). In 2013, he published A Place for Me Too, a snapshot of the diverse humanity that populates Roman nights, starring a naive and mysterious thirty-eight-year-old. This work was followed by participation in the publishing project Sei per la Sardegna (2014), the proceeds of which were donated to the Sardinian populations affected by the 2013 flood; the entertaining Mia madre e altre catastrophes (2016); the historical thriller Il corregidor (2017 and 2019, with Carlo A. Melis Costa); the travelogue Torpedone trapiantati (2018); and the recent I delitti della salina (2020), a finalist for the Scerbanenco Prize.

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