Boy against war

It is the fall of 2001, in New York the Twin Towers have just been knocked down, and as a consequence, the war, prepares to overwhelm Afghanistan once again. Yanis is a 13-year-old boy, but he has long decided to leave for Europe, after the Afghan conflict has taken away his family and his home. He has just crossed the border with Pakistan, on a long walk to the mountains, when he makes a meeting that will revolutionize his life and his path: is the meeting with Gino Strada, the legendary Italian doctor who builds hospitals in Afghanistan and in every corner of the world haunted by the war. Yanis has no doubt. He will follow this burber and magnetic man on his journey back to Kabul bombed to reopen the hospitals and cure the wounded, listening to his stories about the wars he lived, on the foundation of Emergency, on how the rivalry of the powerful destroy the lives of civilians: and will understand that even if they are few and too often unheard, the people who oppose this exist. A moving novel by an acclaimed Italian author, who returns the figure of Gino Strada through real events and the enchanted look of a child. Reading age: 10 years