People, silences and images · where stories leave a mark
The Serpent's Nights
A novella · Bergamo, winter 2020
As Bergamo shuts its doors and counts its dead, a small group of people with nowhere else to go keeps living inside Orio al Serio Airport. They were once part of the background. Now they are the only ones left onstage.
A story drawn from real life, about dignity, fragility and the small gestures that hold on when everything else stops.
“This isn’t a story about heroes. It’s about dignity: a badly folded blanket, a sandwich split in two, a cigarette in the fog.”
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These books are being written in Italian.
The Fishermen’s Island
A father and son travel to Isola dei Pescatori, on Lake Maggiore. A slow, atmospheric Italian folk horror, where the real terror comes from the community and its memory.
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Sparrows
Every morning a young researcher watches a flock of sparrows on a café table. A story suspended between neuroscience, poetry and a very modern mystery.
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Places, waiting and encounters where stories begin
Airports, streets, people met by chance. Grayscale drawings and words that mark the moments that change a life.
About the author
Alessandro Ghisalberti
For more than thirty years I have listened to people: in counseling sessions, at drop-in centers, on the street. My books on relationships grow out of that listening, and so do the stories I tell here: people on the margins, places in suspension, small gestures that remain.
If you are looking for counseling, my sessions are on my other website, in Italian.
Where to read, hear and follow me
Book talks, a podcast and reels, mostly in Italian: I don’t tell you what I write, I let you see and hear it.