Lampedusa-Lampaduza, flat and stark, is Europe’s outpost. It is the first patch of land that the migrants consider as their promised land. This reportage, written in first person, somewhere between journalism and literature, begins with a journey that took place in September 2012 and from the encounters of numerous witnesses. The story tells of the faces and places, the voices of the inhabitants, the many, anonymous heroes, the military, the volunteers, the Mayor. A violent and tragic story that has caused and still causes immense suffering.

Davide Camarrone, RAI journalist and writer, was born in Palermo in 1966. “Lampaduza” is his fifth book.