{"product_id":"dimoranza-luca-cervadoro-9798184018485","title":"Dimoranza: Manifesto for a Ubiquitous Civilization","description":"\u003cb\u003eThere is a word the English language had not yet pronounced. Now it exists.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDIMORANZA\u003c\/b\u003e is the condition by which a place keeps inhabiting a person from within, and their children, and their children's children, across the ocean and across the centuries. It is not nostalgia, and it is not exile. It is the quiet power of a small town to write its own code into the nervous system of all who descend from it, even those who have never seen it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this ambitious treatise, the fruit of ten years of research, \u003cb\u003eLuca Cervadoro\u003c\/b\u003e argues that the small villages of Italy, and of every land touched by emigration, are not dying peripheries but \u003ci\u003eidentity servers\u003c\/i\u003e, always running, in the lives of millions of descendants scattered across the world. From a single town in Calabria, Maida, he builds a theory that speaks to anyone who has ever felt they belong to a place they cannot fully explain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross ten essays, DIMORANZA moves from the senses to the soul: \u003cbr\u003e- why a flavour your grandmother cooked can move you to tears before you know its name (neurogastronomy and involuntary memory)\u003cbr\u003e- why the descendant who returns is not a tourist but an \u003ci\u003eOntological Stakeholder\u003c\/i\u003e of the town\u003cbr\u003e- how diasporas can become a living form of capital for the places they left\u003cbr\u003e- what Maori \u003ci\u003ewhakapapa\u003c\/i\u003e, Navajo \u003ci\u003ehozho\u003c\/i\u003e and Welsh \u003ci\u003ehiraeth\u003c\/i\u003e reveal about a structure all humanity shares\u003cbr\u003e- why the cemetery of the fathers is the final, indestructible anchor of belonging \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eErudite yet intimate, DIMORANZA is in conversation with \u003cb\u003eProust\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eJung\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEliade\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eCarlo Rovelli\u003c\/b\u003e, written in a triple register of rigorous scholarship, civic urgency and personal storytelling. It is a manifesto for a new way of understanding identity in the age of global migration: not by blood, not by soil, but by the code a place leaves inside us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor those who left. For those who never came. For those searching for a word that did not exist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you carry roots you cannot forget, or a homeland you have never visited, this book finally gives your feeling a name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luca Cervadoro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184018485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Luca Cervadoro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48853026111743,"sku":"9798184018485","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dimoranza-luca-cervadoro-9798184018485","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}