Author: Giovanni Dozzini
Book title: E Baboucar guidava la fila (And Baboucar Was Leading the Line)
No. of braille volumes: 3
No. of pages in braille issue: 324
Publisher of the book in black print: Heliks [Herlix]
Place and year of publishing: Belgrade, 2018
No. of pages in black print: 135
About the book:
A modern story about four young men from different African countries who found themselves in Perugia one summer in search of a more beautiful, elusive dream. The story follows their lives over two days filled with quiet tension. Torn between the hope that the asylum request will be approved and the anxiety that it will be rejected, they set off on a short journey to the Adriatic coast. The journey is a rhythmic collection of encounters, obsessions and fluid connections with the Italian language, common to all characters, and necessary for coping and survival. Dozzini received the prestigious European Union Prize for Literature in 2019 for the novel E Baboucar guidava la fila (And Baboucar Was Leading the Line).