Vanny Gani
The Awakening of the Stars, a novel in the mystical fiction category & Aerial Roots a drama and comedy about the author grandmother.
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Land of Warriors: The Adventure of Elio Modigliani in South Nias 1886
by Vanni Puccioni
This beautiful area in southern Sumatra was known by European adventurers in the nineteenth century as a "wild" land, the home of heroes who did not hesitate to behead, warriors that not even the Dutch colonial government could conquer. But Elio Modigliani, a young explorer from Italy, set foot there and went in and out of one village to another and came home intact. Accompanied by four hired hunters from Java, Modigliani not only succeeded in documenting various aspects of Nias life and culture, but also secretly brought home 26 human skulls which he donated to the National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Florence for their research. The big question is, why wasn't Modigliani killed, even though the other adventurers had to save themselves? Now Vanni Puccioni, the grandson of the museum director who exhibited the results of Modigliani's expedition, decided to follow in his footsteps and retrace the places the explorer had visited. The goal is one: to discover how Modigliani could survive among these warriors.
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IN THE TIME OF YELLOW BUTTERFLIES
by Vanni Puccioni
Nias Island, (Sumatra) 1856-1861. The Southern region of Nias island keeps on resisting the Dutch colonizers with its fearsome warriors. After being repeatedly defeated in the thick jungle, the Dutch mount a strong naval expedition, with the objective of building a fort in the bay of Lagundri. Bawo Mataluo is the strongest village in the region and its chief succeeds in rallying the other villages to form an army of a thousand warriors, able to crush the invaders. But mysteriously, they will not attack… But after five years the fort is destroyed by a tsunami, and the Dutch finally withdraw. (the above are actual historical facts). What happened in between these events? The story winds in the village of Bawo Mataluo, through the characters of Tuha, an old and wise witchdoctor, his rampant and evil competitor Galifa, village chiefs, a South African missionary, an evil archbishop, Dutch soldiers, and sea captains. At the turning point of the story are three episodes of man-hunting, each duel being fought through a sense: sight, scent, and hearing are the weapons to find the opponent in the thick jungle. We read of passionate love between Tuha and his wife Sumia, and between his niece Mohua and her brave but unlucky suitor. We read of mortal disease and revenge, of war, of cowardice, of treason and bravery. And we read of divine justice, delivered through the ocean.
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Biography & True StoriesAerial Roots
The grandmother big lies
by Vanessa Gani / Vanny Gani
How would you feel if you found out your grandmother was a big liar? The protagonist believed that the grandmother was a famous French actress, but comes to suspect that she might be a prostitute. In search of the truth, after finding documents from her grandmother with eight different names, she travels with her family to the places where she lived, Romania, Israel and France, and makes surprising discoveries. Read to find out how this Jewish grammy escape to the war and ends up in Brazil. This is not a sad story.
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AdventureThe Awakening of the Stars
A novel in the mystical fiction category
by Vanessa Gani / Vanny Gani
The Enchanted Ones - Volume 1: What would you do if you discovered you had a special power? Create the future, enhance your five senses, be a radar of information, read people's souls. Clarice, the protagonist of this story is a fashion designer and, on the verge of turning 30 amid a professional crisis, resorts to seeing a psychic, who tells her she has a special power Hermetic precepts from ancient Egypt can help to activate her powers and prepare her to fight an upcoming enemy Who could want to destroy her? In fashion, acompetitive and vain industry, enemies are very easy to find. (Full translated EN/PT-BR) The Illuminated Ones - Volume 2: Clarice, travels to India for work and suffers from burn out due to professional pressure In an encounter with the fortune teller, it is revealed that the powers are related to astrology and that her crisis is due to her Saturn Return Status Writing completed. (PT-BR) The Reborned Ones - Volume 3: Clarice travels to Thailand to join the Order of the Golden Dawn Where each sign has an apprenticeship and a final test to face. (PT-BR)
