- Published: 20 June 2023
- ISBN: 9781685890261
- Imprint: Melville House
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 354
- RRP: $55.00
In Sardinia
An Unexpected Journey in Italy
- Published: 20 June 2023
- ISBN: 9781685890261
- Imprint: Melville House
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 354
- RRP: $55.00
"A deeply satisfying dive into the Sardinian soul, but at the same time the writing is so spare and essential - almost as if Biggers somehow reflects the silences and spaces of the island as well. Every page taught me something new about Sardinia's literature, legends, landscape, icons and customs. A moving book which traces the contours of the terrain and hears its ancient voices. A magnificent achievement."
--Tobias Jones, author of The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River
"In Sardinia is an indispensable and necessary international guide. To discover a Sardinia still little known outside the national borders and to reveal its multiform riches and diversity. It is no coincidence that this opens with the Ogliastra artist Maria Lai and closes with the poet of Desulo, Montanaru, just as it is no coincidence that, in this almost intimate text, the many "Sardinias" are represented through a kaleidoscopic variety of languages and cultures, landscapes and knowledge, sounds, tastes and encounters. In Sardinia is an unmissable journey that starts from an inner story to be shared with the vast world. A journey capable of filling that profound void, which makes that stone thrown into the Mediterranean a teeming patch of land yet to be revealed." -- Paolo Fresu, legendary Italian jazz musician and author of, In Sardegna: Un viaggio musicale