Voices from the Bones
Authors: Alessia Franco, with a foreword by Nicholas Marquez-Grant
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There are many ways to travel. Sometimes the most inspiring journeys are those within ourselves, or through the city we live in and believe we know inside out. Guided by the tireless Professor Rosa and the scientists Nico and Maria, a group of teenagers will learn to listen to incredible and moving stories: the stories of those who were made to disappear because they were “inconvenient.”
Irene, Jibril, Pilar, and Ayo are part of the Discovery Team: a group that asks questions, seeks out discoveries, and above all, knows how to listen. Even to the tales told by bones—of those who were victims of violence and enforced disappearances. To these young people, Pedro, Ehawee, the Narrator, and Antonia will recount their stories, transforming them into witnesses of what has been and what continues to happen across the world.
With Voices from the Bones, Alessia Franco addresses the issue of enforced disappearances, speaking primarily to a young adult audience—but not exclusively. A captivating tale that revisits the theme of bones that speak (common to many folk tales around the world) and turns it into a universal narrative, where facts and stories are imbued with the magical realism that is one of the writer’s distinctive traits.
Voices from the Bones was written in Italian, with a foreword by Nicholas Marquez-Grant, and has been translated into English, Spanish, German and Arabic.
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