PRESS RELEASE (11/07/2016)
Tuesday, July 12 a Loano the second round of the “Culture Tuesdays”, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and curated by the I.So THeatre in collaboration with the Mondadori Bookstore of Loano.
Now in its fifth edition, the initiative will host at 18.00, in the’Summer Arena Prince's Garden, the writer Patrizia Emilitri who will present the novel “As if love were enough” (2016, Sperling & Kupfer).
In dialogue with the author will be Graziella Frasca Gallo, accompanied by the musical notes performed by Maestro Roberto Sinito.
“This novel, as I wrote at the end of the text," he explains, Patrizia Emilitri – was created to honor the many women of our past, present, and future (to whom it is dedicated). Being a woman in difficult historical periods such as times of war and economic crisis is the most difficult role there is. This is not a feminist argument, and I do not intend to belittle the role of men within the family, but it is true that the security of the family often falls on our shoulders. I am not talking about economic security, but emotional security. Women are often the glue that holds everyone together, trying to meet needs, console, encourage, and restrain. It is a role that never ends, even when we have the right to be tired.“
Synopsis.
When she returns to live in the village with her husband and two children, Barbara has more than one truth to hide. It's hard to admit that they had to close the shop, that they are in a sea of debt and can no longer afford to keep their apartment in the city, that they have become one of the many families affected by the crisis. Only with her mother can she not pretend nothing is wrong; after all, for a mother, the slightest wrinkle on her child's face is a window into their heart. But there is something else that even she must not discover: a secret that Barbara carries in her womb and that is about to cost her the most difficult decision of her life. One evening, as her thoughts keep her awake and her only comfort seems to be a documentary on TV, a small detail suddenly shocks her. In the study of a famous architect, there on the screen, is something Barbara knows very well: the wooden figurine that her grandmother has always jealously guarded. Grandmother Gentile: a rock for the whole family, a courageous woman capable of raising four children on her own during the war, with her husband missing at the front. Why does no one know—or want to explain—how that little object ended up there? Why does her mother seem annoyed by the subject? There is a dark spot in her grandmother's life, and that is where Barbara wants to dig. At all costs, as if that wooden figurine held the solution to all her problems, the meaning she herself is searching for. Grandmother Gentile's advice, which she now needs so much.
The meeting will conclude with the’aperitif.
