A meeting with Nicoletta Verna, who will present the book, is scheduled for Tuesday 28 May, at 9.00 pm, at the Mondadori bookshop in Mega Forlì. “The days of glass” (Einaudi).
Dialogue with the author Eleonora Mazzoni. This presentation is part of the calendar of the “Festival Caterina Sforza L’Nonconformista” and there will be an extraordinary evening opening of the bookshop.
Nicoletta Verna with her debut novel, The Affective Value (published in 2021 by Einaudi) obtained the Special Jury Mention at the Italo Calvino Award, won the Severino Cesari Award and the Massarosa Award as well as strong critical acclaim.
With her second novel, I giorni di Vetro, also published by Einaudi, the writer from Forlì made a further leap, obtaining enthusiastic acclaim from critics, booksellers and readers.
The book:
Redenta was born in Castrocaro on the day of the Matteotti crime. There are rumors in the village that she has bad luck and that she won’t even make it to the feast of San Rocco. Instead, for the party she is still alive, while Matteotti is found dead. This is how fascism really begins, and also the story of Redenta, of her family, of her people. A world of radical violence – the Twenty Years, war, male abuse – yet of inexhaustible trust in humanity. Although Bruno, her beloved childhood friend who promised to marry her, regardless of her “crazy leg” due to her polio, disappears for no reason, she never stops waiting for him. And when the hierarch Vetro chooses her as his bride, the sadism he inflicts on her fails to extinguish her instinct for salvation: for others, before herself. Redenta’s life intersects with that of Iris, a partisan in the gang of the legendary commander Diaz. What secret is Iris hiding?
The author:
Nicoletta Verna was born in Forlì in 1976 and lives in Florence where she deals with communication and web marketing in the publishing sector. She is the author of essays and volumes on media and mass culture, she has taught communication theories and techniques at various Italian universities and institutes. You have written short stories published in the literary magazines Pastrengo, Carie literarye, Narrandom, Risme.
He published “Il valore affectivo” (2021) and “I giorni di Vetro” (2024) for Einaudi.
