Umbra Mentis

La llamada del Atlas

A hybrid literary novel — part historical fiction, part emotional reckoning — built around a story of love and injustice set in Morocco in 1915.

During the pandemic lockdown, Alessandro, an Italian photographer caught in the middle of a professional and personal crisis, decides to scan some old slides from a trip he took, years earlier, to southern Morocco. In one image taken at the Kasbah El Glaoui, he notices something unsettling: a man's face, clearly visible in the stone of the perimeter wall.

As he investigates where it came from, he uncovers a story of love and injustice — one that forces him to confront his own past.

Publisher: Self-Published
Year: 2026
Language: Spanish and Italian
Pages: 68
ISBN: 9798261150381

La llamada del Atlas

A hybrid literary novel — part historical fiction, part emotional reckoning — built around a story of love and injustice set in Morocco in 1915.

During the pandemic lockdown, Alessandro, an Italian photographer caught in the middle of a professional and personal crisis, decides to scan some old slides from a trip he took, years earlier, to southern Morocco. In one image taken at the Kasbah El Glaoui, he notices something unsettling: a man's face, clearly visible in the stone of the perimeter wall.

As he investigates where it came from, he uncovers a story of love and injustice — one that forces him to confront his own past.

Publisher: Self-Published
Year: 2026
Language: Spanish and Italian
Pages: 68
ISBN: 9798261150381

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