The literary salon in the courtyard of the Natural History Museum of Foggia continues to host the most beloved names in the Italian publishing scene.
The summer version of Fuori gli Autori, the permanent exhibition organized by the “la Magna Capitana” Library of Foggia and the Ubik Bookshop, continues in full swing.
Today Monday 1 July 2024, at 6.30 pm, Lorenza Gentile will present her latest novel, All the beauty that awaits us, Feltrinelli 2024, in the outdoor space in viale Giuseppe Di Vittorio, 31 Foggia. After the great success of last year, with the book Le cose che ci salvano, also published by Feltrinelli, the Milanese author, translated into seven countries, returns with a new story, this time set in Puglia, among olive trees, trulli and the sea on the horizon.
Selene, thirty years old and a restaurant on the brink of bankruptcy, escapes one summer night to the countryside of the Itria Valley, in search of her origins, surrounded by friends and family.
It is a novel about unexpected events and mistakes that set in motion the desire to truly achieve objectives, according to one’s own scale of priorities.
“Between trips to Salento, discussions on the meaning of life, yoga and afternoons in the kitchen with people who perhaps know her better than she knows herself, Selene begins to understand that sometimes it is necessary to get lost and take the wrong path to find the courage to follow your dreams. And finally go towards all the beauty that awaits us”, we read in the band.
LORENZA GENTILE, born in 1988, grew up between Florence and Milan. He has published Teo (Einaudi Stile Libero, 2014; Universale Economica Feltrinelli, 2023), Happiness is a simple story (Einaudi Stile Libero, 2017; Universale Economica Feltrinelli, 2023), Le piccolo liberties (Feltrinelli, 2021), inspired by his experience at the famous Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, and The things that save us (Feltrinelli, 2023).
In conversation with the author, the journalist Francesca Romana Cicolella.
Free admission, until all seats are taken. To follow, as always, the usual signing session.
There are five events in total that will liven up the literary evenings in the month of July: other big names loved by the public and critics are coming soon.
