At Ombre e Luci, we tend to focus more on intellectual disability than on physical or sensory impairment. But we wanted to bring this book by the acclaimed journalist Candido Cannavò to your attention. With courage, tenderness, and clarity, he tells the true stories of people he has known and spent time with. They are remarkably vital, dynamic individuals who have overcome serious disability by drawing on what their bodies could still do — offering a stirring example of love for life in the face of everything.
"The characters, the stories, the voices in this book demand our respect and attention toward those who, from a different and disadvantaged position, show us they are capable of teaching us willpower and vitality — that force which is, in every way, a precious resource for our society and for our awareness as human beings." So writes Walter Veltroni in the foreword, which he titles, deliberately, "The Nobility of a Story."
Mariangela Bertolini, 2006