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In this intrepid and humorous travelogue, Carlo Pizzati embarks on a quest to find a cure for a backache that has tortured him for twenty years. Armed with his notebook and an indomitable spirit of adventure, Carlo travels from a posturologist's office in northern Italy to the rarefied mountain air of Boulder to seek a variety of New Age alternative cures; from a trance-dance venue hidden near the woods of Cinque Terre to an exorcist-shaman's den near Buenos Aires, who photographs demons and auras. Eventually, Carlo fetches up in India, to live and learn from the yogis at the Ashtanga yoga centre in Mysore. In India, as Carlo engages in strenuous yogic discipline, meditates atop hills, he has an explosive insight into his past births which leads to an encounter that will change his life forever. Along the way, our sceptical, suffering but always curious narrator discovers the ways in which spirituality and technology intersect. Wry, witty and wise by turns, this is a book about self-discovery, facing fears and failures, and undertaking an arduous journey with an open mind and heart.\n\n
Carlo Pizzati is the award-winning multilingual author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction. He is an editorialist and a political analyst for la Repubblica and la Stampa who has taught a post-graduate course in theory of communication at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. He?s been a correspondent from New York, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rome, Madrid and Chennai. He?s covered the Northern Ireland strife, guerrilla war in Colombia, the narcos business in the Andes, smuggling of immigrants in Mexico, civil rights battles in Chile, pro-environment militancy in the French atoll of Mururoa, and the GMO battle in Europe and the US. He?s won two Gambrinus-Mazzotti prizes (Exploration & Travel, and The Voice of the Readers); the Leonardo International Prix and the Igor Man Prize and has lectured at his alma mater, Columbia University, at New York University, Loyola University, Yonsei University, Ca? Foscari and Sapienza Universities. He lives in Paramankeni, a fishermen?s village in Southern India, with his wife and a few Pi dogs. Novels in Italian: "Una linea lampeggiante all'orizzonte" (Baldini + Castoldi 2022) ?Nimodo? (Feltrinelli 2014) ?Crimin?l? (FBE 2010 Milan) Non-fiction in Italian and English: "La Tigre e il Drone" (Marsilio 2020) "Bending Over Backwards" (Harper Collins 2019) "Mappillai - an Italian son-in-law in India" (Simon & Schuster 2018) "Tecnosciamani" (Punto d'Incontro 2012) Essays and Conversations in English: "The Edge of an Era" (Juggernaut 2016). Short stories collections in English and Italian: "A History of Objects" (Harper Collins 2022) ?Il Passo Che Cerchi,? (Edelweiss 2012) Screenplay made into a feature movie: ?Non lo so ancora? - 2012
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