(March 8, 2017) What would you do if you can have a new life, a new beginning? Francesco - the protagonist of "1988. The unexpected past ", Pierluigi Califano novel published by Alletti - has this opportunity. It wakes up twenty years before the night he had gone to sleep, the days of his youth. Than a research begins to find out what happened to him that night in June, a quest that leads him toward unexplored worlds that have sweet and bitter surprises, with the continuous overlapping of the current life with the previous one, with memories left who knows at which place, in what time. The book will be presented Friday, March 10 (at 6.30 pm) at Italian Institute of Culture of Valletta with author's presence. Introduced and moderated by Salvatore Schirmo, IIC director. Califano is a political science graduate, an automotive world, film, music, art, literature, writing and sports passionate. "1988. The unexpected past ", published in 2015 by Alletti Editore in "Gli Emersi"- Fiction series., is Califano's first novel which garnered immediately to the public, who appreciated the "journey"in search of yourself with many cultural references, trip that captures reader's interest since first pages. The fast pace of the novel allows to live with the protagonist twenty years of history between 1988 and 2008, full of events that have marked and characterized the twentieth century. (Red)

ABOUT / IIC

Valletta Italian Cultural Institute was founded in February 1971 and had its headquarters at the Italian Embassy until 1974. The Cultural Manager of the Embassy is also the Director of the Institute. In 1974 the Institute was transferred to its current headquarters in Valletta. The building, built in 1602 by Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt was first used as an armory, then the documents of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta were moved in and it becoming the Chancellery of the Order. The plaque at the entrance of the building commemorates the work of accommodation of weapons and acts of the Order performed by Grand Master Wignacourt.