Fiction

Rome, 1864. Luisa Stecca helps women in the popular neighbourhoods of a city still ruled by papal power, among dusty alleys, convents, shops and a population struggling to survive. She assists with often clandestine pregnancies and welcomes girls and mothers into her home in Piazza del Fico. Among these women is Angela Carbone. Born into an unfortunate family, she is a girl determined to escape the poverty that suffocates her.

With sensitive prose and the flair of a great storyteller, Anna Pavignano delves into the most intimate folds of her protagonists, creating a powerful and vivid historical fresco inhabited by authentic, fragile, and extraordinarily human figures.

“One thing you can only find in Rome and nowhere else is that color. And that light, so soft and diffused. Photographers call it ‘the golden hour.’”

This book traces the personal and artistic life of Massimo Troisi. To do so, the author uses a narrative pretext and pretends that the actor did not die, as is well known, in 1994, immediately after finishing filming “Il Postino,” but chose instead to retire to live in a mysterious country resort, far from the stages and fame, cutting ties with all that went before,.

From the Premio Strega finalist Silvia Ferreri, five stories about women tested by fate.

Five stories about women who chose to share their experience and start over.

What remains of the bond between a father and son after a rancorous estrangement that has lasted thirty-seven years? Thirteen thousand days without seeing each other, ever since the father abandoned his wife and son because he was in love with another wom- an. An entire life apart.

A mother talks to her daughter in a Serbian clinic. On the other side of a door the operating theatre is being prepared. Eva has just turned eighteen and has been looking forward to this moment since the day she was born. She wants to change sex, by having the operation that will make her what she has always felt she is – a man.

Winner of Premio Napoli 2019.

Shortilisted Premio Strega 2018

“Once upon a time there was the world. In the world, there was a city where it rained three hundred days a year. The city was called Seattle, in the westernmost part of the United States of America. To this city came a surfer from San Diego, an avid fan of the Who and the Ramones. In this surfer there was a soul. In this soul, there was the spirit of an era... If it were a fairytale it would begin like this.”