Luca Sciacchitano – bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY
When wounded curiosity drips ink


 

It is always the same force that guides each of my books: the need to understand, dismantle and reassemble reality. Like a child taking apart toys to discover what makes them come alive, I search for the hidden gears of our time to transform them into stories, ideas and visions.

 

Luca Sciacchitano - books

 

 

THE PELECIDE
Why Criticizing Israel Is a Moral Duty
(Currently available in Italian only)

Ass. Multimage (2025)
Pages: 199

Genre: Civic essay / contemporary analysis

War crimes, crimes against humanity, suspected genocide. It would be easy to criticize Israel by looking at the list of atrocities committed by its state machinery.
And yet, the accusation of “antisemitism” whispers persistently within us, accusatory and unsettling, capable of silencing us in the face of the ongoing *pelecidium*.
This book seeks to break apart our guilt-inducing biases and move criticism of Israel out of the toxic realm of antisemitism and into the clear waters of legitimate anti-Zionist political critique.
To understand how we have been guilt-tripped for so long, how much money flows behind Western favoritism, and the Israeli interests tied to the extermination of the Palestinian people.
Ultimately: why it is morally right to criticize Israel.
Pelecida – n. m. and f., and adj. [from the Hebrew “Peleshet”, Philistine, Palestinian, inhabitant of the southwestern region of Palestine, from Peleshet “Palestinian” + -cida “-cide”] (pl. m. -i, archaic -e). – n. m. and f. 1. Killer of Palestinians. 2. By extension: one who is hostile or opposed to Palestinians and to their rights over the territory of Palestine.

 

BULIMISM AND DEGROWTH
How Bulimic Consumerism Is Stealing Our Lives
(Currently available in Italian only)

Ass. Multimage (2024)
Pages: 88

Genre: Civic essay / contemporary analysis

Leaving the consumerist machine means reshaping your scale of values, rethinking your idea of “social status”, and examining your expenses by reconsidering the weight and the real necessity of your needs. The most iconic quote linked to this thesis is probably Tracey Smith’s: “The more money you spend, the more time you have to spend out there earning it, and the less time you will spend with the people you love.”

 

ORDO AB CHAO
(Currently available in Italian only)

Independent author edition (2023)
Pages: 44

Genre: Photographic reportage

Ordo ab Chao is not only a fascinating photographic journey inside one of the most mysterious and inaccessible places for outsiders: the Masonic temple. Ordo ab Chao is also a reportage on an underground culture made of symbols, ancient knowledge and evocative imagery. From chaos to an order enriched by brief aphorisms capable of adding further depth to the process of meaning triggered by the photographs.

 

WITHERED FLOWERS + EXILES
(Currently available in Italian only)

Independent author edition (2021)
Pages: 64

Genre: Hybrid work – authorial poetry and photography

The fading of a love and the recovery of serenity is the axis around which the conceptual work Withered Flowers + Exiles oscillates in a sinusoidal motion. Twenty-one poems that, by cutting through pain, emerge renewed thanks also to the accompanying photographic supports. Textual and visual, therefore. Poems and images dancing ecstatically, generating increasingly deep layers of meaning; a universal work attempting to narrate what is a shared human experience. The night in which love freezes, as the overture to a dawn of rebirth

 

THE SELEKA MISTERY
(Currently available in Italian only)

Ed. Il Cliliegio (2020)
Pages: 432

Genre: Fiction

From the author of The Shadows of Nahr and Fatima, comes a new explosive cocktail of adventure and mystery. When Josuč Uzoma, a Central African immigrant hosted at the CARA reception center in Trapani, contacts the mercenary agency run by Salvatore Pumo, no one knows that a journey into hell is about to begin. The task, after all, seems simple: fly to the Central African Republic and recover both a mysterious briefcase and Josuč’s wife and daughter. But nothing is simple in a country torn apart by civil war, and the mission soon gives rise to a series of unexpected events. Meanwhile, the two women, Miriam and Naomi, attempt to reach Europe and escape the looming threat of death, while the group of mercenaries must carve their way through the violence of a nation with no restraints left.

 

FATIMA
Almost at the End of the World
(Currently available in Italian only)

Augh! Edizioni (2017)
Independent author edition (2023)

Pages: 190

Genre: Fiction

Gabriele works for a trashy tabloid newspaper. He is certainly not proud of it, but bills and mortgage payments must be paid. So when his editor assigns him an interview with an unstable man locked inside a psychiatric hospital — someone who seems to know the most enigmatic implications of one of the Church’s greatest mysteries — he has no choice but to get in his car and drive to the fog-covered medieval village of Erice. There, helped by the beautiful Dr. Rafaela, he realizes that stepping through the doors of the “Nostra Signora di Fatima” Psychiatric Hospital and confronting the mystery contained in the third secret represents much more than the chance to write a sensational article. Amid ancient confraternities and interpretations both official and unofficial, Gabriele comes to understand that within the words of that prophecy lies the entire future of humanity. And he appears to be at the center of it.

 

THE SHADOWS OF NAHR - VOL. 1
(Currently available in Italian only)

Watson Edizioni(2015)
Independent author edition (2024)

Pages: 396

Genre: Fiction

Salvatore Pumo, known as Tore, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call. A woman informs him that his son, a volunteer in Afghanistan with an NGO, has been kidnapped by the most feared terrorist in circulation: El-Sayyid. But one detail leaves Tore even more perplexed: the woman, an official at the Ministry, is warning him unofficially. Every regulation is cast aside, because her daughter has also been kidnapped. In a land where there are no kings, only many princes — of war, of drugs, of weapons — Tore will embark on a mission to save his son and the other hostages, bypassing dormant institutions and confronting the bloodthirsty terrorists of the Black Gold Country himself. With an ominous countdown echoing in his ears, Tore blends into the desert heights in a slalom of long waits and frantic military actions, inching ever closer to El-Sayyid and the hostages. He will not be alone in this mission: helping him are old and new friends, and Laura, the mother of the other kidnapped girl. Obstacles, however, multiply at every turn, and it often becomes difficult to distinguish a friend from an enemy.

 

THE SHADOWS OF NAHR - VOL. 2
(Currently available in Italian only)

Watson Edizioni(2015)
Independent author edition (2024)

Pages: 328

Genre: Fiction

Seven days have already passed for Tore. Between planning and lethal incursions, something has gone wrong and the Puma finds himself, unwillingly, back at the starting point. With a corpse weighing on his conscience and two hostages still to be rescued, Tore must set off again to locate the prison where the survivors are being held. It will be the unexpected help of Moosa, the warrior-slave with unfinished business with El-Sayyid, that will lead him back onto the slippery path that winds deep into the terrorist’s lair. There, the bloody final battle against Nahr’s army awaits. There, every knot will finally unravel, and Tore will be able to tear the mask off both his enemies and his supposed allies, in an unexpected ending that will leave the reader breathless.

 

 

 

 

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