EVENTS / MEETINGS

MY NAME IS RUST, I'M ON A JOURNEY.

Each presentation of "My Name is Rust" is not just a literary event, but an opportunity to look within ourselves, together. In these evenings we talk about identity, belonging, and wounds that are unseen but cry out for attention.

And every time, thanks to the readers, a real, necessary, human dialogue is born. Discover us on social media, where we will meet.

Rust awaits you. And so do I.

UPCOMING MEETINGS.

November 15, ROME

December 10, VENICE

December 17, TERMINI IMERESE

December 18, RAGUSA

MY NAME IS
RUST.

The protagonist, a young mobster from Caltanissetta, "born to kill," chooses to disappear: he takes on a false name, Pierre Rousseau, and enlists in the Foreign Legion. Thus begins an extreme journey, from the barracks of Marseille to the jungles of Guyana, but the real conflict is within him.

From childhood and adolescence, in a harsh Sicily, Ruggine learns silence and violence as the only law. No trauma, no remorse: only the need to survive, to belong, to not disappear.

Between poetry and brutality, *My Name is Rust* tells the story of a man's descent into despair, struggling with his own name, his own past, and with the desperate desire to be loved.
An impossible love, for Susanna, a prostitute from Veneto, is the only light that pierces the rusted iron of her life.

My Name is Rust is a novel about the need to save oneself.

Or, save?

MY NAME IS RUST.

THE PROMISE.

World War II bursts into Romolo's life like a sudden wind, sweeping away all certainty. He, who knew only the slow pace of the cows and the breath of the pastures, is dragged away from his land. In Trieste he learns to shoot, becomes a sharpshooter, then a marconista (a type of Italian soldier). He discovers the sea, discipline, and fear.

September 8th catches him off guard, like so many others: he deserts, changes his name, and crosses a wounded country, amidst rubble, devastated stations and countryside.

He's not a hero, but an ordinary man caught in a history too big for him. He carries the war in his eyes and the silent promise to stay alive in his heart, even when everything around him seems to be collapsing.

THE PROMISE