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«In traditional Persian tales there is always a crow that flies up into the sky», like a messenger, a witness, a keeper of the historical and cultural heritage that Kader Abdolah brings down to us. In this novel, the Iranian refugee Refid Foaq relates the long journey of his life, which started in Teheran, where he grew up in his father’s workshop and where, as a young university student, he joined the resistance against the ayatollahs. After many adventures, he was saved in extremis by the young woman who would become his wife, he goes on with his life and his tale with the escape, the arrival in the Netherlands and the challenge of a new identity that reconciles past and present, the assembly line worker and the budding writer who is determined to fulfil the ancient literary vocation in the new language – the language of freedom.

Giuseppe Cederna
Born in Rome in 1957, Giuseppe Cederna is a cinema and theatre actor, writer and traveller.
His theatre interpretations include: Sogno di una notte d’estate, directed by Gabriele Salvatores and The Cherry Orchard by Cekhov under the direction of Gabriele Lavia.
For the cinema he has appeared in many films, including La famiglia and Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa by Ettore Scola, Marrakech Express and Mediterraneo by Gabriele Salvatores, awarded an Oscar in 1992, and has worked with film directors of the likes of Marco Bellocchio, Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli, the Taviani brothers, Silvio Soldini, Rob Marshall and Gianni Amelio.
For television, he has acted in series such as Distretto di Polizia and 1992, 1993, 1994 in which he played the part of the Public Prosecutor in Milan, Francesco Saverio Borrelli and Made in Italy.
He tested his narrative writing skills in Il Grande Viaggio (2004) from which he took the play of the same name, Ticino. Le voci del fiume, storie d’acqua e di terra (2009) and Piano Americano (2011).

Pino Cangialosi
Born in Rome, he graduated with top marks from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he studied electronic music, composition, bassoon, percussion instruments and musical phonology.
He followed post-graduate courses in Conducting with Peter Maag (whose assistant he was) in Composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and in Orchestration and Arrangement with Ruggero Cini.
He has composed, orchestrated and directed music for over 150 plays, musicals, musical comedies and ballets, television and cinema.
In 2011, he founded the multiethnic “IYI Orchestra” ensemble, and is its director. He teaches at the Latina Conservatory.

Flavio Cangialosi
He is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer. He started to study the piano and then went on to the double bass at the Latina Conservatory and Rome’s Saint Louis College, graduating in Music and New Technologies and studying for a year at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
In 2017, he founded Xperimenta, a project for developing sampled libraries of high quality sound, which today has sold more than twenty thousand copies throughout the world.
He has also worked in the theatre in live performances with artists like Max Paiella, Michele Riondino, Gaia de Laurentiis, Massimo Wertmüller, Simone Colombari, working as a multi-instrumentalist (piano, double bass, mandolin, guitar, percussion, and chalumeau) and as a composer.