Award Scrivere per Amore

23/10/2022 - 20:30

On Sunday, 23 October at 8:30 PM, at Due Torri Hotel, Sala Impero, part of the Scrivere per Amore series will take place, featuring a meeting with writer Nadia Terranova and her new book Trema la notte.

Hosted by Roberta Cattano.

In collaboration with the “Club delle Accanite Lettrici e Accaniti Lettori della Valpolicella”.

Discover the full program here: Scrivere per Amore

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The Night Trembles

On 28 December 1908, the most devastating earthquake ever recorded in Europe razed Messina and Reggio Calabria to the ground. Nadia Terranova draws on the history of the Strait — the mythical place at the heart of her writing — to tell the story of a girl and a boy to whom a collective tragedy takes everything away, yet unexpectedly grants them a chance: to build, from the ruins, a life that may be imperfect but closer to the idea of love they have always imagined. Now alone, they can only wander helplessly among the ruins, among the other survivors, until fate makes them meet: for just a few moments, yet so intense they remain indelible. In a primordial, pre-conscious way, the two will be forever bound.

The author

Nadia Terranova (born in Messina in 1978) lives in Rome. For Einaudi Stile Libero she has published the novels Gli anni al contrario (2015, winner of numerous awards including the Bagutta Opera Prima, the Brancati, and the American The Bridge Book Award) and Addio fantasmi (2018, finalist for the 2019 Premio Strega). Her work has been translated worldwide. She collaborates with the cultural pages of la Repubblica and La Stampa. She writes the weekly column Sirene in Vanity Fair, featuring portraits of contemporary women, and she is editor of K, the literary magazine of Linkiesta.