{:en}PRESS RELEASE (31/07/2017)
Tuesday, August 1 a Loano a new event will be held in the sixth edition of the Culture Tuesdays organized by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano in collaboration with Event Size e Mondadori Bookstore Loano.
In the’Summer Arena Prince's Garden, to the 6 p.m., Alessandro Barbaglia will present his first novel “The Inn of Last Solitude” (Mondadori, 2017). With light writing imbued with poetry, between language games, surreal brushstrokes and great tenderness, Alessandro Barbaglia tells a splendid and unique love story.
History
Libero and Viola are looking for each other. They still don't know each other, but that is just a detail... In 2007 Libero booked a table at the Locanda dell'Ultima Solitudine, for ten years later. And he is certain that, there and only there, in that all-wood inn perched by the sea, his life will change. The important thing is to know how to wait, and to be certain that “if something in life does not come, it is because you have not waited long enough, not because it is wrong to wait for it.” Viola also waits: the strength to leave. Need, the tiny town in which she lives alone with her mother after her father mysteriously disappeared, is tight for her, and the desire for new horizons becomes overpowering. In the meantime, however, she has no shortage of work, the hill of Bisogno is dotted with forgotten flowers, and the women of Viola's family, all of whom bear floral names, have been handing down the task of tuning them for generations, because a forgotten flower is as sad as a withered memory. Instead, Libero lives in a big city, in a house with blue-painted walls that is almost completely empty. Except for a trunk: imposing, white. A trunk that looks like a chest, and actually holds a treasure, the map that allows one to follow one's dreams. Those dreams that, according to Viola's grandmother's teaching, should be sown in winter. For if they withstand frost and wind, they blossom splendid and strong in spring. And that is when they must be tuned, because dreams must always be cherished, never abandoning them. Libero and Viola each seek their place in the world, and in doing so they brush against each other, like two distant islands that for the instant of a wave find themselves within the same blue. And whether it is the sea or the sky does not matter. The Inn of Last Solitude stands just where the sky kisses the sea and the rock plays to divide them. The Inn of Last Solitude stands where fate writes its stories. Those who are not in a hurry to get there can read them once there. As if they were life. As if they were death. As if they were love.
Leading the meeting will be Graziella Frasca Gallo, accompanied by the musical notes performed by Maestro Roberto Sinito.
Alessandro Barbaglia, poet and bookseller, is thirty-five years old and lives in Novara.{:}
