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Paolo Naldini presents "Good Morning, Palestine" at the Circolo dei Lettori in Turin
On 22 June, at 6 pm at Palazzo Graneri della Roccia, a meeting dedicated to the book by the director of Cittadellarte will take place. The event, which offers free admission subject to availability, will see the author in conversation with Rossana Beccarelli, medical doctor, anthropologist, and president of the Euro-Mediterranean Network for the Humanisation of Medicine (HUM MED).
A book that sets out as a journey into conscience and guilt regarding one's own passivity in the face of history, into the disarming normality with which we coexist with injustice: the reference is to Good Morning, Palestine, the first novel by Paolo Naldini, director of Cittadellarte. The volume published by Capponi, released last autumn in all bookshops and online, including in digital format, tells the story of a middle school teacher, Sebastiano, overwhelmed by a moral and sentimental crisis, fuelled by the helplessness felt over the genocide of the Palestinian people and by a love - irrational in all its forms, but the lifeblood of his every action - for a singer "known", or rather listened to, on YouTube. Good Morning, Palestine is a cry, but also an intimate diary that becomes public: the protagonist, in a constant and provocative dialogue with his own inner Jiminy Cricket, decides to set out on foot towards Jerusalem accompanied only by his toy poodle, Leone. An inner march before a geographical one, towards the idea of a different tomorrow. Between reality and delirium, love and desire, Good Morning, Palestine unfolds a slow loss of balance – refound? – at first solitary, then collective. Paolo Naldini has not only penned an intense and courageous work tinged with politics and compassion, but he has also been prophetic: he wrote the novel between the summer and autumn of 2024, without knowing about the Global March to Gaza, which would later be held in June 2025 in Cairo. Furthermore, Good Morning, Palestine intertwines not only literature and introspection, but also civic commitment: the proceeds from the book are in fact destined for the project The School Bag Project: Supporting Education in Gaza, supporting education for children in war-torn territories.
Since November last year, the author has been the protagonist of a literary tour that has led him to present his volume throughout the Peninsula, from the North, in "his" Biella, to central Italy, in Florence, all the way to the South, in Pozzuoli. The numerous stages held so far have featured Paolo Naldini engaging in dialogue with different guests and professionals each time, always offering fresh insights that have enriched the meetings and made them unique. The next "chapter" will be written in a prestigious context: the Circolo dei lettori in Turin, hosted in the elegant Palazzo Graneri della Roccia, right in the heart of the Piedmontese capital. This centre of absolute cultural authority will be the active backdrop for the next presentation of Good Morning, Palestine, scheduled for Monday 22 June at 6 pm. The meeting, proposed as part of the Animae Loci festival, curated by the cultural association La Nottola di Minerva ETS and in collaboration with Cittadellarte, will be moderated by Rossana Beccarelli, medical doctor, anthropologist, president of the Euro-Mediterranean Network for the Humanisation of Medicine (HUM MED), and former medical director of the San Giovanni Vecchio hospital in Turin. Admission will be free, subject to availability.
