“The island and the time” at Feltrinelli, the book by Claudia Lanteri

Thursday 2 May 2024 — 5.24pm

Tuesday 7 May at 6pm at the Feltrinelli Bookshop in Livorno Claudia Lanteri presents “The island and time” (Einaudi). Introduces Veronica Galletta with readings by LAV (readers aloud). Introduced by Veronica Galletta, winner of the Campiello Opera Prima Award, the Sicilian author arrives in Livorno to present her debut Claudia Lanteri.

The book is called “The island and time” and it is a mystery set on an island south of Sicily, on the threshold of the 1960s. A mystery with an unusual structure and a fast pace that tells the key to a mystery that is before

all in the soul of the protagonist. The arrival of a small boat with two people on board, one alive and the other dead, disrupts the daily life of a place where few inhabitants have always known each other and live bent by the struggle for subsistence. In the background, a modest life made of fishing and meager crops, and places such as the barracks or the small port, which mark its time and meaning.

But for the protagonist of The Island and time, those days, and the investigation that followed, are a subject to be told for thirty years to anyone who bothers to listen: women passing by, street urchins, tourists little by little they change the face of the island. Because in that handful of hours, yes

condenses an unsolved enigma first of all within himself.

A literary mystery outside of any canon and with a triple strength: an unusual structure, a fast pace and a rare pen.