Set Me Free: The Story of How Shakespeare Saved a Life - Couverture souple

Striano, Salvatore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925498808 ISBN 13 : 9781925498806

Editeur : The Text Publishing Company, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A wonderfully affecting novel about crime, redemption, the Mafia and the power of Shakespeare to transform a person's life.

"Give freedom to the thousand Ariels locked up in the prisons of the world. Give them the words to ask for it."

Salvatore Striano was involved in gangs and imprisoned in his youth, and it was discovering books and literature that profoundly changed his path. He is now a prominent film actor in Italy. SET ME FREE is his largely autobiographical novel.

Sasà is a Neapolitan criminal who by the age of fourteen is leading a gang of wild boys involved in street violence and drug dealing in the Spanish quarters of Naples. He's in prison by the age of thirty, his life all but mapped out. That's when Shakespeare steps in.

At Sasá's most hopeless point, he is persuaded to join the prison's drama troupe. In Shakespeare's Tempest, Sasá stumbles on what he needs to explain the world which has defined his own life. Set Me Free is a story about betrayal, forgiveness and, above all, the transformative power of reading.

Biographie de l'auteur

Salvatore Striano was born in 1972 in Naples. During a stint in prison, he discovered a love of reading and theatre. Striano is now a successful actor and has had a number of roles in cinema and TV, including Cesare deve morire (Sacher, 2012), based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Text Publishing Company
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925498808
• ISBN 13: 9781925498806
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible