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La Tigre e il Drone è il libro sull’Asia che in Italia oggi non c’è. Un libro destinato a durare.” Beppe Severgnini, editorialista e inviato del Corriere della Sera

“Un affresco coloratissimo dell’India contemporanea” Daria Bignardi a “l’Ora Daria”

“Un libro per conoscere più a fondo le contraddizioni di  un Paese che sta tra la tradizione e la totale novitàCamila Raznovich a “Kilimangiaro” Rai 3

“Sulle Strade dell’Asia tra droni e vacche sacre – La Tigre e il Drone è un giro dell’Asia per raccontare un Oriente fuori dagli stereotipi” La Repubblica

“Il libro dà la sensazione di una ricognizione a bassa quota, che rallenta accelera e ritorna, sorvolando territori immensi (…) Cercata a bordo del drone Pizzati, la chiave dell’enigma indiano – e in generale asiatico – sembra essere la contraddizione: eroiche rivendicazioni, rivolte epocali e ditte tecnologicamente all’avanguardia fanno l’altalena con sconquassi ambientali e pregiudizi coriacei, la scienza va a braccetto con la mistica, i socialismi sono spesso dittatoriali. Contraddizioni che non vanno guardate col binocolo occidentale, supponendo che il nuovo scaccerà il vecchio, ma in una complessa dialettica di trasformazione che ingloba gli opposti, e che da locale può farsi globale. La speranza è che in questa India cangiante e imprevedibile prevalgano gli aspetti migliori, come il diciassettenne ideatore di un drone che individua le mine antiuomo, o l’azienda che con mille euro converte in ibride le auto a benzina. La tigre e il drone ci dice che il futuro di quei luoghi è anche antico, e che il nostro avvenire è destinato a intrecciarsi sempre di più con quello del continente asiatico, non foss’altro per i numeri che lo compongono.”

La Stampa, 23 ottobre 2021

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Il Giornale di Vicenza, 25 ottobre 2021

Il giornalea di Vicenza premio Gambrinus

Alberto Anile su La Repubblica il 4 novembre 2020

Recensione la Tigre e il Drone su Repubblica del 4 novembre 2020

“Un interessante saggio dedicato al mondo asiatico e alle sue molteplici sfaccettature.”

Viviana Filippini Il Giornale di Brescia

Recensione Tigre e Drone il Giornale di Brescia

“Una prospettiva geopolitica disincantata da cittadino d’oltremare”

Nicoletta Martelletto – Il Giornale di Vicenza.

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“Il viaggiatore capovolto” recensione di Giacomo Giossi su Il Sole 24 Ore (TOP REVIEW)

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Carlo Pizzati è uno scrittore ed è stato un inviato in giro per il mondo per conto di vari quotidiani e giornali, dal Messico agli Stati Uniti fino all’India, dove tutt’ora risiede da oltre dieci anni. Pizzati nella scrittura come nell’indole, ha maturato la lezione dei grandi inviati. In lui non c’è cinismo, non c’è sicurezza, ma ci sono sorpresa e stupore. Nei suoi pezzi traspare una forma sottile e acuta di felicità nell’incontro come nell’imprevisto. Il che sarebbe in teoria la base, l’essenza per uno scrittore o per lo meno per un inviato, ma oggi pare che questo sia considerato quasi un elemento elitario e marginale della scrittura.

La tigre e il drone, da pochi giorni in libreria, conferma come Carlo Pizzati sia invece di quella razza di scrittori, evidentemente in via d’estinzione, che sono capaci di viaggiare, incontrare e conoscere oltre gli ambiti ristretti di una sudata nevrosi intellettuale.

Il suo saggio entra nel corpo dell’India (o, meglio, del mondo asiatico) in ogni sua piega, vivendone le contraddizioni con sguardo curioso e mente leggera. Pizzati sembra quasi abbandonare la pesantezza – quella delle responsabilità pregresse come delle colpe passate e dimenticate – verso quel mondo da cui lui stesso proviene e che tanto si vanta, sempre più stupidamente, di definirsi occidentale.” Continua a leggere cliccando qui.

“Libro appassionante”

Elena Paparelli – “Affari Internazionali”

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“La tigre e il drone”: l’India raccontata da Carlo Pizzati

(Intervista alla rivista “Affari Internazionali“)

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“Il Venerdì di Repubblica” 18 settembre, 2020.

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“Da un lato i temibili felini, raddoppiati nelle giungle. Dall’altro la tecnologia che prova a controllarli (o a catturarli). Sono i due simboli dell’India di oggi, racconta un libro di

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Bending over Backwards – a journey to the end of the world to cure a chronic backache” (Harper Collins 2019)

“The physics and metaphysics of chronic back pain” 

“The quest for a remedy for chronic pain in the neck, shoulders and along his spine sends Pizzati into a downward spiral. Along the way, he is made to reckon with the possibility that the choices he has made so far, especially with regard to his tormented love life, and the past traumas he is still haunted by, may have been the triggers for the crippling pain.”

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A rib-tickling account dipped in wit and wryness

Manek S Kohli in the Deccan Chronicle December 18th, 2019.


Bending Over Backwards, Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad, Dec1819

Laced in subtle humour and elaborate metaphors” Gowri S – The Hindu

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“A wise, witty and personal book” 

“His medical tourism, of the adventurous, backpacking variety, enlivens this deeply personal and sometimes existential narrative.” by Swati Rai for The Hindustan Times

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Bending over Backwards, Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Nov2219

A rambunctious story of love and transformation” Sunaina Kumar in the Mumbai Mirror.

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telegraph interview BOB

Your book focuses on self- discovery and facing life’s challenges with an open mind. What advice would you give to young readers?

Explore as much as possible, since options diminish as you grow older but choose as well as you can. It’s not ‘you’ who always make the choice, certain times it’s a sum of experiences. So, forgive your mistakes, relax and get going. 

Interview with Monika Monalisa / The New Indian Express (click here to read full interview)

“Finding Cures in India” / Dec. 4th 2019

“What to expect when a group of Europeans have a classic Indian ‘spiritual’ experience – An excerpt from ‘Bending Over Backwards’, Carlo Pizzati’s book on his exploration of likely and unlikely places in India.” (Excerpt in Scroll.in)

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 “MAPPILLAI – an Italian son-in-law in India” Simon & Schuster (2018)  

Carlo Pizzati: intimate stranger (OPEN magazine)

In his first novel, Criminàl, Pizzati “explored the dark side of a difficult relationship” with his father. In Mappillai, he had the fortune of “describing a serene life with the woman” he loves. “It’s not at all easy,” he qualifies, “to write about happiness. I find it more challenging than describing something more widespread, like suffering. But it’s more fun.”

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Mappillai, Provoke Lifestyle (Monthly), Chennai, Dec18

“An enjoyable, moving and worthwhile read” –

Rohini Malur in Provoke Lifestyle Magazine

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An interview with Malaysian tv show “Let’s talk” about his books, the latest memoir, politics and more:


Books and Authors: A time of transition: Interview with Carlo Pizzati, author of “Mappillai – an Italian son-in-law in India” (The Hindustan Times)

In a deeply personal book, Italian journalist Carlo Pizzati, who lives with his Indian wife in a coastal village in Tamil Nadu, writes about the simultaneous Hinduization and Westernization of the nation, and about his own Indianization!

BOOK TALK | Carlo Pizzati on being an Italian ‘mappillai’ in South India

What India Taught Me by Carlo “Mappillai” Pizzati (Stories on Toast – YouTube)

India’s Italian son-in-law talks about trying not to write an India book (The Telegraph)

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“… it doesn’t claim any expertise and is certainly not an exercise in Indophilia. It’s a self-aware India book, about personal experiences, mildly extrapolated to larger issues, but working hard to undermine the Western gaze.”

Italian Mappillai (Times of India – Speaking Tree supplement)  In an endearing, personalised account, CARLO PIZZATI shares his experiences in India as son-in-law in a Chennai family

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“Europeans go through different phases of discovery in India. There’s the imaginary India of the first phase, the India you have in your mind, that writers like Herman Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore or Rudyard Kipling have etched in your imagination along with some other books, movies or even cartoons; the India ‘that will change you’, that will make you see a new face of humanity, harsher at times, enlightening at others.”

Everything is extraordinary in India, says Chennai’s own Italian Mappillai Carlo Pizzati (Interview, print and video, with The New Indian Express) 

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‘Mappillai’ is a serious book in funny clothes. Placing his part-memoir, part-philosophical book in the migrant literature genre, Carlo ruminates: “I think we are all migrants, and I am a privileged migrant…
India is definitely mature, especially in the metropolitan context.”

‘Mappillai’ book review: Italian son-in-law Carlo Pizzati on love, life and Chennai (The New Indian Express)

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The book is entertaining, philosophical and insightful all at once.

Pizzati’s journey through various cultures, countries in pursuit of some answers and his settling down in Paramakeni near Chennai finally for love, is well encapsulated.

‘Mappillai’ will make you ponder about the harsh realities we are facing and leave you nodding in
agreement with Pizzati and the ‘point of view’ that he brings not as an expat, but as an immigrant.

“Come home to the Coromandel” – profile by Deepa Alexander in The Hindu

“a lyrical, stream-of-consciousness narrative.”

WhatsApp Image 2018-10-10 at 09.16.00.jpeg“The book was a decade in the making, and took a year-and-a-half to write,” says Carlo. “There is a lot of race identity in it, about the India I first encountered and the India I see now. It is the journey of 10 years of a white European in this country who becomes a local without having to go native.”

A Venetian in Madras, or, being a ‘whitey’ in a changing India (excerpt in Scroll.in )

scroll excerpt mappillai.jpg“After months of living in a part of India that is not yet ruined by the plague of tourism, months on end of seeing mostly Tamil people, Tamil smiles on Tamil faces, when you do finally spot the occasional pale, waxy-skinned Australian, German, or British tourist attempting to blend in by wearing a hippy tie dye, bangles and necklaces, dreadlocks or braids or simply wearing the comfortable uniform of the Patagonia international army, the mosquito-repelling baggy trousers, the pink, clip-on fanny packs, men with pony-tails and capri pants, or hiding under the wide brimmed jungle-style Crocodile Dundee hats in downtown Chennai, you think: oh, look, look, whiteys!”

WhatsApp Image 2018-10-07 at 08.56.09.jpegThe Hindu – R. Krithika Oct. 7th, 2018

Mappillai is part love story, part memoir, part philosophical musings… all of which are tied together with wry humour, some grumpiness and a large dose of acceptance… Pizzati offers shrewd observations on caste and class differences, the yawning gap between the rich and the poor, attitudes of foreigners, bribery….

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Writing about India is like writing about the mafia. It’s like owning a pharmacy. Everyone is bound to always get sick, there’ll always be a need for medicines. A never-ending, lucrative business.

India’s Italian son-in-law, Carlo Pizzati, releases memoir  (The Times of India)

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“A light-hearted memoir”

“I was someone who came looking for answers but I found an answer that I wasn’t actually looking for, which is, I found love.”

Deccan Herald Year in Books: “Humorous often irritable honesty” (Dec. 30th, 2018)

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screen shot 2019-01-12 at 10.43.40“Besides a little about his earlier life, and what happens to him in village Paramankeni and environs, this book is also about Carlo Pizzati’s conclusions about all kinds of things in a complex land. While he stoutly claims not to be Wendy Doniger, William Dalrymple, Patrick French, – or even Megasthenes, Xuanzang, Al Biruni (and so on) and therefore this CANNOT be ‘an India book’, he does have his own engaging theories about the way things work here. […] In slow, contemplative sentences and in rapid exclamatory ones, his prose and his theme switch rapidly. Perhaps this is just a modern book, aimed at the sophisticated short-attention-span reader. But it is rather effervescent at times (like a stereotypical Italian?)” Saaz Aggarwal in Trenzy magazine Jan 11, 2019. “

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India offers a great sense of harmony: Carlo Pizzati

Interview with Sudha G Tilak (Lonely Planet  January 2019)

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“It’s a familiar story, yet quite out of the ordinary.

It’s a tale of exploration, and a love story.”

Prannay, The Hindustan Times January 28th, 2019


ITALIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF “MAPPILLAI”

Il Venerdì di Repubblica 23 novembre 2018

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La Stampa (Cultura)

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Il Giornale di Vicenza

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Video feature in Sole 24 Ore tv about Carlo Pizzati’s journey to Japan to explore the work of Italian author Goffredo Parise, from Vicenza.

Da Parise a Pizzati: scrittori vicentini esplorano il Giappone di Stefano Carrer (Il Sole 24 Ore) 9 NOV 2015


EDGE OF AN ERA (JUGGERNAUT 2016): Essay and interviews

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Interviews in Italian with Carlo Pizzati about writing and reading:


NIMODO second novel, in Italian 2014

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TECNOSCIAMANI memoir in Italian 2010

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AUTHOR BLURBS for TECHNOSHAMANS

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CRIMINÁL Novel in Italian 2011

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IL PASSO CHE CERCHI:   Short stories 2012

Intervista il Giornale di Vicenza Carlo Pizzati

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