LA DONNA CHE RISE DI DIO

From the bestselling author of Bomba atomica and L'ingegno e le tenebre. Leonardo e Michelangelo, due geni rivali nel cuore del Rinascimento, comes an outstanding journey through the Old Testament, among the apparently unlikely characters that God elects to carry out His will.

It may seem impossible to believe, but in the Bible, when God chooses someone for a mission, they are often the most unsuitable people we could think of: for example, to originate a People, he chose an old and sterile couple; he orders a stuttering man to become an orator and prophet; he picks a child to defeat the giant Goliath in a duel. What is the meaning of all this? Mercadini explores and narrates this epic story in his unique, page-turning and brilliant way. He navigates the readers through the Scriptures and reveals the gems and lessons hidden in each verse of the Old Testament. Roberto Mercadini was born in Cesena in 1978. He has more than twenty monologues in his repertoire, ranging from the Hebrew Bible to the origin of philosophy, from evolutionism to happiness. With over 150 performances a year, he leads his storytelling shows and poetic monologues around Romagna and the rest of Italy. Bomba atomica (Rizzoli, 2020) won the 2020 Robinson (La Repubblica) Literary Tournament for Best Book of the Year. L'ingegno e le tenebre. Leonardo e Michelangelo, due geni rivali nel cuore oscuro del Rinascimento (Rizzoli, 2022) has been an immediate bestseller.