The extraordinary duel between Life and Death. 25 stories of daring HOPE.

25 classical stories taken from the international literary tradition not only connected with the Christian event of Easter, but also with the traditions of the Spring rites, the new birth of life, and nature flourishing which happens during the season after the cold Winter since the Ancient Times.
These stories and the inspiring Carl Larsson’s watercolours accompany children and elders in waiting for a great time in the Christian year, Lent and Easter.

Mystery, paradox, Christian focal point. The subtitle immediately makes clear who it is aimed at. Isn’t it for everybody the prodigious duel?
The daily battle between the affirmation of the sense of everything, that gives life and hope, and his denial, that void even preventing us from getting out of bed. Nature shows us in an admirable way the decay and blooming, signs of a tenacious hope through the succession of seasons: the Winter of the burial and the Spring of the rebirth.

The traces of this duel — in every human being from any time even before or outside the Christian event — emerge in the legends of tradition, fairy tales and poems: fairy tales by H.C. Andersen, O. Wilde and G. Gozzano, short stories by A. Čechov, A.M. Cànopi and V. De Domenico, poems by S. Quasimodo, E. Dickinson, R. Pezzani, E. Pea, G. D’Annunzio, D. Valeri and A. Negri and Easter legends from all over the world rewritten by our editors.