TerraRossa Edizioni is a boutique publishing house and its head office is in Alberobello (Bari), Italy.
Trying to propose books that differ from those the public expects, and striving to make readers think and considering literature as means to explore the possibilities of both language and invention, used to be the reasons that behind the very idea of publishing; yet, nowadays they seem to be considered utter madness. However, we are all in desperate need of this kind of madness and TerraRossa was born with the purpose of leading words outside beaten paths. As to what concerns the choice of materials and the design, each and every one of our books bears witness to how important they are for us.
We only publish meaningful books, and we have two fiction series: Fondanti (Milestones) which reprints – in a new, revised edition – recent but rare books by those authors who had an impact on the Italian literature; Sperimentali (Experimental) which prints new, unpublished works using their original style to deal with the most current themes of the day.
HIGHLIGHTS:
MICHELE RUOL
LIST OF THE THINGS WE SAVED WHEN THE FOREST BURNED DOWN (Inventario di quel che resta dopo che la foresta brucia)
Spring 2024
SOLD TO FRANCE, GREECE, SPAIN, SLOVENIA, SERBIA
12000 copies sold
Optioned for film
Shortlisted for the Strega Prize 2025 (most important Italian prize)
Winner 31st edition Giuseppe Berto Award
Winner 9th edition Megamark Prize
Winner 1st edition Venetarium Labomar Prize
Shortlisted at these Prizes: POP (for debut novels), Mastercard, Asti, Mandrarossa, Giorgione
In the story of Mother and Father, time is shaped by objects, that trigger memories about the people who touched them; and by facts: before and after the car accident in which their children are killed. The births of First Born and Last Born. The accident that involves them all. But also, those marginal events that change the course of their existence, and of ours too: a touch that lingers, a glimpse of someone else’s chat. In this luminous and sharp debut, Michele Ruol leads us through his characters’ most intimate lives: it is the imprints they left on the objects touched in their own houses that make us question what we think of them – and of ourselves too.
Michele Ruol is an anaesthesiologist. He writes for the theatre and has published shorts stories on literary magazine such as “Inutile” and “Effe – Periodico di Altre Narratività,” and on the anthologies L’amore ai tempi dell’apocalisse (Galaad) curated by Paolo Zardi, and Il Veneto del futuro (Marsilio) curated by Alessandro Zangrando. The play Betulla, produced by Piccolo Teatro in Milan for the podcast Abbecedario per il mondo nuovo, was published by Il Saggiatore as the namesake book. List of the things we saved when the forest burned down marks his debut as fiction writer.
