Higher than the sea

Author's name: Francesca Melandri Publisher: Muscatellani Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2021 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: In the book "Higher than the Sea," Francesca asks everyone: Italy, Italians, and history, what has befallen you, O human? The novel was published with a beautiful translation by Amani Fawzi Habshi from Muscatellani Publications as part of distinguished translated novels. A woman and a man are sailing the sea towards one of the Italian islands, where the prison for the most dangerous criminals in the country is located. The woman is visiting her husband, and the man is visiting his son, but the fierce Mistral winds force them to spend the night together in the house of a prison guard who is always eager for the other side, so a bond develops between the visitors that words might fail to contain, even the word "love." However, the new lovers are forced to not meet again after prisoners were distributed to other scattered prisons due to the violence witnessed at the island prison. Thus, Italy was forced into everything: sadness, love, waiting, fear, and hope... It is tormented by despair from violence that ends all that violence.