Chiara Barzini
Aqua, a story of water and lost dreams

“The author returns to the Californian landscape of her youth to focus on the history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a phenomenal construction completed in 1913, envisaged to carry water, the source of life, to Los Angeles, a barren place at that point that became thanks to it a megalopolis, and over the following decades, the epicentre of global cinema. […] A book of hybrid nature that combines various literary genres: travel writing, philosophy, cultural history and memoir.”

Vera Michalski-Hoffmann, jury member