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November 2019

THE DAY HE SWIMS THRU MARRAKECH

The Day He Swims Thru Marrakech is a book born from the film The double of Rรค di Martino: the story of a troupe that tries to realize in Morocco, in Marrakech, the remake of The Swimmer, a 1968 feature film with Burt Lancaster taken from the eponymous story by John Cheever. Through backstage photographs and landscape fragments, the book tells a city of contrasts, moving within the chromatic spectrum of aqua blue of luxurious poo
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June 2019

BERLIN โ€“ LA CITTร€ DI FUMO

The second volume of Jason Lutesโ€™s historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightlife of Berlin heats up as many attempt to distract themselves from the political upheavals within the city. The American jazz band Cocoa Kid
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