Catalogue | Frankfurt Book Fair 2011 | Ute Körner Literary Agent

Non fiction | True story
A trip from Afghanistan to Rome (via )
Four Afghan kids in Rome. Alone, in the
rain, surrounded by people’s suspicions.
Carlotta Mismetti Capua makes an
appointment with them for the next
morning. But only one of them comes.
Akmed.
This is the beginning of a delicate,
human story between a young woman
and child of war.
A story where everything becomes an
emergency and every word loses
significance. Or acquires new, more
important meanings.
“Carlotta hasn’t just written a
piece. She lived it.”
Carlotta Mismetti Capua studied to
teach art to children and then became a
journalist.
She has worked at the English weekly,
Time Out and for years has written about
TV and radio for the insert, Il Venerdì di
Repubblica.
She was Italian correspondent for the
Japanese monthly Eat and is still a
journalist of the Epolis group and
L’Espresso.
With her story-telling The City of Asterix,
on Facebook since 2008, she won the
2010 Ischia Prize for Social Media
Journalism.
Carlotta Mismetti Capua
Like two Stars in the Sea
Piemme · Milano, 2011
312 pages
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