The Pepileni
Who is the Pepileno, the creature that draws close to you when you are small and never leaves you
The Pepileni are an original creation by Anusha Bhama Gukhool in Italian literature. They live inside an original imaginative world, a therapeutic fairy tale that uses a new mythology to explore and explain absence, addiction, how children perceive themselves, their relationship with the world around them and their emotions. It speaks in particular to parents and to the world of gifted children with high cognitive potential.
Who is the Pepileno?
The Pepileno is the creature that draws close to you when you are small and stays forever, because it returns each time you need to look at the world with the eyes you had as a child. It was born from the pen of Anusha Bhama Gukhool in the fairy tale Solomon J. in the village of the Pepileni.
Who are the Pepileni and what are they?
The Pepileni are the inhabitants of Pepilandia, the village of the tale: a new mythology, created by Anusha Bhama Gukhool, that gives shape to children's emotions, to absences, to addictions and to the way every child perceives themselves and the world around them.
The Pepileno is that creature that draws close to you when you are small and then never leaves you, because it always returns when you need to look at the world with the same eyes you had as a child. It returns when you search for answers, when you feel a crack widening and you do not want to give up.
It returns when you do not know what to answer and you are crumbling, and then it retrieves you and helps you join the dots and see a special picture again while others see only a scribble. The Pepileno is what you dream of keeping forever without ever losing it. It is what makes you stay, within yourself, here and now.
Your greatness exists from before you came into the world. Your task is to let it grow. Greatness is the origin.
The dialogue
«Mummy, how do I recognise who truly loves me?»
«You understand it because they give you their time and take care of you.»
The book tells the full story of the village of the Pepileni, with all the characters, places and symbols of the tale. Paperback edition, in Italian.