PRESS RELEASE (3/08/2015)
Tuesday, August 4, a Loano, reading lovers will be able to meet the author Cristina Rava and together with her delve into the stories of the book “Aglaia's Apricots.” (COEDIT, 2015).
The book presentation, scheduled at 6 p.m., in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena, is included in the review i Culture Tuesday, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre.
Serving as hostess and in dialogue with the author will be. Graziella Frasca Gallo, curator of the meetings.
Already the author of two short story collections and a historical memoir, related to the Ligurian territory, Cristina Rava since 2007 has taken the path of noir, publishing with the Fratelli Frilli publishing house several detective novels starring Commissioner Rebaudengo.
For Garzanti he published the novels “A Sea of Silence” (2012) and “After the Black of Night. An Investigation of Ardelia Spinola” (2014), both featuring forensic scientist Ardelia Spinola as the main character.
Now she is back on bookstore shelves with a book of “short stories conceived and written for adults who have not lost the taste for still feeling like children, aware that everything is allowed to literature, starting with the pleasure of breaking its own codes and genres, in all favor of what Roland Barthes called “le plaisir du texte.”.
Nine stories, which like small cameos form a short journey into the imagination, accompanying the reader away from the daily grind, to a non-place made of the same stuff that dreams are made of” (from the cover flap).
The book presentation will be accompanied by the musical notes of Maestro Roberto Sinito.
The meeting will close with a aperitif.
