Florence, Nov. 1, 2016 - A choral novel, coming out of the "hero" scheme that drags others, but suspended between history and fiction, leads the reader from Rome to Istanbul to Mosul, on the border line between Turks and Chaldeans , Kurds and Iraqis, as the Iran-Iraq war raged in 1986 and a group of Chadda refugees from Mosul, where they are fighting these days for the liberation of the city from Daesh, seeking future fleeing beyond the frontier and then reaching Canada . He was presented at the Oblate Library, the novel 'Exodus in Shadow' by Michele Brancale, with the contributions of Giuseppe Panella, professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, literary critic and publisher, writers Giulio Greco, Sebastiana Gangemi and Paola Lucarini, Co-ordinator of 'Look and Dream' with the 'Bookmakers' Association promoted the meeting.
"Exodus in the shade," observed Gangemi, "involves hundreds of Chaldeans and is inevitably conditioned by a number of first variables between all military operations and the international chessboard." Orhan, Mit's agent, Turkish intelligence, investigates the Istanbul Synagogue strike in September 1986 and receives the order to closely follow an operation by an Italian association, the Hope International Committee, which has to carry on the passage of a group of Chaldeans from the border with Iraq, because it is good to not forget that "the Chaldeans may descend but under our conditions".
Narration takes place in the lines of an action story, chapters written in a dry and essential language flow as fast as the frames of a large screen film. Many scenes "happen in speed but in which centuries of history and conflicts have been condensed in a geographic area where we find the stories of so many different peoples, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, Iranians, Iraqis, Chaldeans." This is a fast pace that dictates mostly from the events of the war in progress, "which inevitably affects the passing of the 150th and beyond Chaldeans that have been rejected by the Turks and brought back to Iraqi land at the mountain border where The Kurdish smugglers are also interlocutors. A fast pace that sometimes pauses and opens up squares that project us into the lives of some of the characters we meet on this journey. " It comes out of pages of great literary intensity "on which to return, pages that give a face to those who in daily newsletters are only indicated by numerical expressions, pages that approach us to the pain of characters that are representative of a humanity faced with the difficulties of war".
"Exodus in shadow - according to Giuseppe Panella - is the novel written by a poet, is the book of who knows that words have their weight. It is a book of salvation, characterized by a never baroque writing, a novel rooted in reality, but which responds to a precise narrative strategy and has something in sight that is outside, fulfilling a function of truth. Paola Lucarini has caught up with Ladolphs some aspects that inspire the story told, starting with the rooting of peoples in the prophecies. The writer is sensitized by a central nucleus, for Ladolfi: it is that portrait Jesus makes of himself when he says "I was a stranger and you welcomed me". Through a plot of innervation on the canons of the historical novel and on the other on the spy story, Brancale warns that as in all of the movements of history there are people and each has a name and is the holder of a precious story.