ROma, May 29. (askanews) – Afghanistan and terrible days of western retreat and the return of the Taliban to power in 2021 are at the center of the new novel by Tonino Bettanini, a spy story that follows the work of the crisis unit of the Farnesina; But the protagonist is the country in all its complexities, its panoramas, the failed mission of the western states.
“It is a story that has closed very badly and still represents today for the so -called West a chess and also a shame, especially for the hopes of modernization that he had started, in a process, however, full of contradictions and certainly criticizable, especially thinking about the female universe”.
Kabul’s waterproof, Tonino Bettanini’s new novel
Consultant himself of the Foreign Ministry for several years, Tonino Bettanini finds his hero Brando Costa, the expert in international relations sent by Farnesina, but next to him the co -star is an Afghan woman, courageous daughter of an archaeologist; Together they go in search of a humanitarian operator, suspected of lapislazzuli trafficking. He is his “Kabul waterproof” (Magog 2025) of the title. The story thus unfolds between Kabul and the sumptuous landscapes of the town’s mountains, and there is another woman to hold the ranks.
“In this book of the suggestions also of real characters, in flesh and blood. Today the crisis unit of the Farnesina is lined up by Nicola Minai who, among other things, also wrote a beautiful book on Afghanistan but in the book is lined up by a woman, and I happened to see a woman named a woman called Elisabetta Belloni, a well -known institutional figure in our country that today works in Brussels at the European Commission” he explains ” Bettanini.
It is an ever closer vice that has closed on Afghan women along the wire of the months, first excluded from the universities then by the schools then forced to home, with the full return of the Burqa, despite the many attempts of protests all repressed with violence, and less and less remembered. Also for them, Bettanini says, is “Kabul’s waterproof”: “This of Afghanistan is a reality too forgotten and not to forget, precisely because the hope of change was and remains to the world of women; really there the thirst for culture, to know, of change had taken the right way and it is very unfair that this remains among us as a dead letter”.
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