Dedalo & Dharma. Escape from Kazan Cinema

Adventure

“It’s love that makes the impossible possible,”and now they’re connected… and in trouble!


It’s a summer evening when, without even realising it, Dharma comes out of the cinema screen to escape certain death and meet that very spectator, Dedalo, who comes to the Kazan Cinema every single day to see her.
Dedalo is thirteen and has an unbridled passion for films and Dharma, his age, is a character who escaped a destiny which, like that of all the characters, always repeats itself in “The Rindwalker”: the most anticipated Hollywood film of the season.
What seems like the beginning of a surreal and romantic idyll is in fact only the premise of a bigger, daring story, full of dangers. Because Dharma is “only” a character and absolutely has to return to the film. To do so, both will have to abandon reality and dive into the cinemaverse: a parallel and complex universe where all cinematic stories are connected to each other..

  • An ironic, funny writing style with short chapters and intense action.
  • Characters you can empathise with, teenage love, the power of friendship and above all the love of cinema and stories.
  • Beautiful illustrations reproducing the posters of the films the protagonists travel through.
Publisher: Mondadori
Target: 10+
Year: 2023
Author
Manlio Castagna

Screenwriter, director, author, and film critic, he spent over 20 years as part of the artistic direction of the Giffoni Film Festival.
He made his debut in children's fiction in 2018 with the bestselling Petrademone trilogy (Mondadori), translated into several languages. Since then, he has explored a wide range of genres: from the historical fantasy of La notte delle malombre and Di fuoco e seta (both longlisted for the Strega Ragazzi Award and finalists in various literary prizes), to the horror of Goodwill and Nessuno verrà a prenderti, to nonfiction with the cinema guide 116 Movies to See Before You’re 16, and the genre-bending novel Dedalo & Dharma, all the way to social noir with Barriera (all published by the Mondadori Group).
The Reincarnation of the Klun Sisters and Try Not to Sleep are his adult fiction titles.
In 2022, he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in cinema with Il viaggio degli eroi, produced by Rai Cinema and awarded with record-breaking viewership on Rai1.

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