{ "id": "quando_le_parole_impararono_a_vivere", "title": "When Words Learned to Live", "tags": null, "summary": "A young apprentice grows in a city where every memory exists only in the memory of men. When merchants, priests and rulers begin to fail to keep the weight of information, it assists the birth of something that no one had ever seen: signs capable of speaking even in silence. Each new engraving changes the way people live, work and remember. 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