PRESS RELEASE (8/08/2016)
Tuesday, August 9, a Loano, Margherita Oggero will be a guest at the exhibition “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.
At 18.00, in the’Summer Arena Prince's Garden, the Turin-based writer will present “The girl opposite” (2016, Mondadori), a novel that won the 64th Bancarella Prize.
The meeting with the author will be led by Graziella Frasca Gallo, accompanied by the musical notes performed by Maestro Roberto Sinito.
Margherita Oggero In his latest novel, he tells the story of Marta and Michele, characters with seemingly very different personalities and backgrounds, whose paths seem destined to converge from childhood onwards.
Marta is a young archivist with a passion for incredible news stories; her thoughts are strongly influenced by a fear of abandonment, the legacy of a childhood marked by her mother's departure from the family and deeply disappointing romantic experiences. Michele is a young engineer who has fulfilled his dream of “driving trains”; originally from Naples, he grew up under the guidance and protection of his grandfather, a barber who emigrated to the north. He is still a child when he notices Marta: reading alone on the terrace opposite the one where Michele spends his Sunday afternoons, made hateful by the presence of his parents and sister. The lives of the two run on parallel tracks, but fate intends to give voice to that silent dialogue.
Margherita Oggero skillfully weaves together the invisible web of glances and trajectories, meanings and desires born between those windows and destined to unite, separate, and make her characters dance between the real yet poetic scenes of her Turin.
In its simplicity, it tackles countless themes: loneliness and the difficulty of forming lasting relationships, the value of memories, the need to come to terms with one's past in order to live fully in the present and thus escape the gray areas of life.
The meeting will conclude with the’aperitif.
Margherita Oggero, a former literature teacher, was born and lives in Turin. In 2002, she published her first novel, The tattooed colleague, with Mondadori. The following year sees the release of A small wounded beast, which inspired the television series “Try again, prof!” with Veronica Pivetti. Detective professor Camilla Baudino is also the protagonist of the novels The American Friend (2005) e Something to keep to yourself (2007). His latest books, also with Mondadori, are. Awakening in Paris (2009), The hour of stone (2011) e A blow to the heart (2012).
