Women’s stories continue to enliven the summer in Piazzetta Bagnasco, thanks to the cultural program proposed and organized by the “Piazzetta Bagnasco” association. The program of editorial presentations, created in collaboration with the Modus Vivendi bookshop and I Love Sicilia, includes the presentation of “Sorelle Spaiate” by Laura Esposito on Wednesday 26 June and Thursday 27 June – “Life lessons in a juvenile prison: diary (true ) of an elementary school teacher” by Daniela Crimi. Both appointments are at 6pm.
Wednesday 26 June – “Mismatched Sisters” by Laura Esposito.
A true story kept for many years in one of those memory trunks in which the more or less beautiful moments of our lives are stored. Then, however, it happens that one day you decide to open it and a story like that of “Sisters Unmatched” comes to life, Lucia Esposito’s first novel which delivers it with all its strength to the world of literature. An intense and beautiful novel that narrates the arduous path of a journalist who finds herself confronted with the world of human frailties. The book will be presented at 6pm. Laura Anello will talk to the author.
The book. Viola is determined and full of talent. She left Naples driven by the desire to become a journalist, but in Milan she quickly discovers that for her (young, female and inexperienced) establishing herself in that world is not a given. Ershela also left her homeland, Albania, full of confidence in the future. The profound and naive hope of a better life, however, is destined to shatter against the grimmest reality: the one she believed to be a companion in love and faithful to her will instead be the one who forces her to become a prostitute. While Viola laboriously begins her journey as a reporter, becoming passionate about the stories of those who live on her margins, Ershela takes refuge in letters to Alina, her beloved distant sister. She confides everything about her: about her first client, the one who gives her chocolates, the boy she likes and her friend who, one evening, throws herself under a truck to escape an inhuman fate. And it is precisely those letters, full of pain but also of strength and love for life, that unite the destinies of Ershela and Viola in an epilogue that leaves you breathless. A thin but indestructible thread that intertwines two lives in a single story of profound and touching sisterhood.
The author. Lucia Esposito was born in Naples and has lived in Milan for years. You studied political science at the University of Naples «L’Orientale» and attended the specialization school in Journalism in Urbino. You have been a journalist since 1996 and since then you have never stopped writing, for work and for passion. Mismatched Sisters is her first novel.
Thursday 27 June – “Life lessons in a juvenile prison: (true) diary of an elementary school teacher” by Daniela Crimi.
Entering prison as an operator is an experience that marks the existence of a person; it changes values, important things. Even more so when you enter a penal institution for minors where you find yourself dealing with human lives that have been interrupted, humanity that has not received an affectionate gesture that can prevent you from taking the road to perdition.
Daniela Crimi’s first book “Life lessons in a juvenile prison: (true) diary of an elementary school teacher” will be presented at 6pm on Thursday 27 June in Piazzetta Bagnasco. Camillo Scaduto will be in conversation with the author. “I Love Libri” is the series of meetings with authors of contemporary Italian literature curated by “I Love Sicilia”.
The book. Daniela’s choice, that December, is a conscious choice and she “enters” that prison from which, in her heart, she will never leave again because, despite hundreds of students, dozens of classes, she will always remember those “terrible little ones” ( never prisoners, always boys) who made her despair, scared but who loved her and who she loved and cared for.
