The Lanera district will mark the penultimate stage of the cultural event Lovely Borders and to welcome Lisa Ginzburgprotagonist of the meeting Thursday 13 June, at 6.30pm, in via della Quercia (in front of the Pink Blue Bar). In case of bad weather, the event will be held in the main hall of the University Campus of Matera. A note specifies that: “Sabrina Charis Dragone, member of the Amabili Confini association, will introduce the meeting, the first part of which will be reserved for stories chosen from those coming from macro-area A (Lanera, Pini district, Giustino Fortunato, Cappuccini, Agna).
The presentation of the novel will follow in the second part A hidden feather by Lisa Ginzburg, published in 2023 by Rizzoli. They will dialogue with the author Rita Montinaro (Amabili Confini association) e Michela Gargano (Book Club Matera). The readings will be by Anna Onorati.
Born in Rome in 1966, Lisa Ginzburg she studied at the Normale in Pisa and specialized in seventeenth-century French mysticism. She was director of culture of the Latin Union. Among his books: Desiderava la bufera (Feltrinelli, 2002), Colpi d’ala (Feltrinelli, 2006), For love (Marsilio, 2016), Good morning midnight, I’m coming home (Italosvevo Edizioni, 2018), Pure invention. Twelve variations on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Marsilio, 2018), Cara pace (Ponte alle grazie 2020), Jeanne Moreau. The light of rigor (Giulio Perrone 2021), I was looking for an immensity. Life of Clarice Lispector (rueBallu Edizioni, 2022). You collaborate with Avvenire, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Il Foglio and Nazione indiana.
A hidden feather. A thin, disheveled boy, a sulky look, dark blue eyes, attentive. A little girl with very blonde braids, a high-pitched voice. Tan and Rosa are eleven years old when they meet for the first time at Quercetana. In that enchanting place in the Tuscan countryside, he is the adopted son of the owners, she is the daughter of the caretakers. Tan, who arrived from Moldova, uses anger and violence to defend himself from memories of which he bears the marks. Only Rosa has access to his kingdom, and together, between games and puzzles, they build a precious intimacy. She is the only one capable of understanding him, and protecting him: the two of them, accomplices. But one day the time comes to separate. Years later, Rosa is an established ophthalmic surgeon and there is no room in her life for anything else, let alone love. Tan has tried various paths and traveled around the world, in search of himself, of the story of him uprooted by her. Meeting again at Quercetana on mid-August is magic, the looks sparkle. With an incandescent lightness to which it is impossible not to respond, the past presents itself in new guises. The happiness and shocking surprise of a completely new encounter, before having to decide whether to stay or go. Lisa Ginzburg, in this luminous story about time and the seasons of life, with a writing capable of touching, tells us about two families, two friends, two lovers, and their chiaroscuro. With Rosa and Tan we will return home, to those places of the soul where the memory resurfaces together with his demons and her sweetness. Where every encounter marks forever, never to be forgotten.
Lovely Borders will end on June 20th with the unscheduled “Amabili Confini Off”, which will host the writer Marco Malvaldi. The complete program is online on the Amabili Confini website, while the recordings of the live broadcasts will be available on the association’s Facebook page and on the Youtube channel.”
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