A mystery in which various elements intersect, from sport to introspection, passing through the description of some symbolic places of Naples. All this is “Rovesci”, the new book by Giuseppe Farese (Absolutely Free, 2024, Zona Gialla, 18 euros) which will be presented on Friday 28 June 2024 at 6.30 pm at the IoCiSto bookshop in Vomero (via Cimarosa 20). They dialogue with the author: Titta Fiore, Maurizio de Giovanni and Ciro Sabatino.
The book
Commissioner Mino Gargiulo is a man with a conservative spirit, who views with distrust the potential consequences that progress without rules can entail for contemporary society: he persists in reading newspapers in paper format, he hates air conditioning and artificial intelligence prefers a greater exercise of human intelligence. He heads the Rione Alto police station, in Vomero, a bourgeois neighborhood in the city of Naples, characterized by green parks and pedestrian areas. And it is precisely in the quiet of the Vomerese hill that the commissioner comes across the murder of an elderly woman, whose existence appears at first sight free from any ambiguity. The passion for tennis, the red clay courts, the life of the club, constitute the common thread of an investigation that ends up uncovering the desperation and the abysses into which the human soul can sink. Mino Gargiulo tries to capture details and character nuances of the protagonists who appear before him during the investigation, thus outlining a vast range of human types. Rovesci is a detective story that traverses the inscrutable trajectories of the psyche, which sometimes tends to double itself, until a surprising dark side emerges.
The author
Giuseppe Farese (Naples, 1977) works in the press office of an international shipping company. Graduated in law from the University of Naples Federico II, he has been a freelance journalist since 2013. He has written about sport, politics and culture, editing the volumes “Fragile identity and difficult integration” (Rubettino, 2016) and “Culture and entertainment in Naples in the years of the Valenzi Council (1975-1983)” (Artem, 2021). For Absolutely Free Libri, he made his debut with “Un tempo bello”, memories of Napoli basketball and collaborated on the volume “Vince Napoli”.
Giuseppe Farese has 3 children: “I write when everyone is asleep, it is passion that drives me,” he says.
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