My brother is in Ferramonti

A story of memory, sibling love, and resistance against oblivion.

Rome, 1940. Miriam is ten years old when her older brother Gabriele is sent to an internment camp. Separated by war, they begin to exchange letters: she writes about life in a city under siege, he tells of his days in captivity. When the war ends, Miriam is no longer alive — but she continues to exist in the letters her brother keeps writing to her, sharing the life of the new family she will never get to meet and the future she will never see. An imaginary, yet profoundly truthful testimony about absence and the enduring power of memory.

• A delicate and moving epistolary tale that gives voice to childhood and loss, set against the backdrop of the Shoah and occupied Rome.
• A novel that blends fiction and historical memory, offering young readers a powerful and empathetic entry point into one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century.