Francesco Marini

Nonna Raccontami Francesco Marini

"Grandma, do you remember the house where you were born? Tell me about your first school day! On what occasion did you meet grandpa?..." Ninety questions and many blank spaces to fill: the opportunity of bringing grandmothers and grandchildren closer, to preserve the historical memory of your family and to transmit it. A grandmother is an important figure of everyone's childhood, a great resource of good advices and wisdom, an irreplaceable part of our lives; yet, we sometimes realize that we do not know much about her. Francesco Marini has addressed his grandmother a series of questions and now he invites us to do the same. The result is a book that is both a diary and a scrapbook, with plenty of white spaces just waiting to be filled with notes, family trees and photos. Everything you need is a pen and a grandmother willing to tell her stories, to talk about herself, to offer something that will stay on paper forever. The questions form a path that gives order to memories through emotions and feelings: a simple but extraordinary gift for today, when too many stories from the past are lost. I edition: May 2013 I reprint: July 2013 II reprint: December 2013