PRESS RELEASE (12/27/2016)
Thursday, December 29 a Loano, to the 4 p.m., at Yachting Club at Marina of Loano meeting with the author will take place. Raffaella Verga, organized by the Pro Loco Loano under the auspices of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Municipality of Loano.
The author will present her latest novel “But why me?” (2015, Curcio Editore). In dialogue with the writer will be the journalist Grazia Noseda and the president of UNITRE Loano, Umberta Bolognesi.
The meeting will close with tea and pastries to celebrate the arrival of the new year.
Here is the plot of Raffaella Verga's novel taken from the back cover.
“Susanna's life was planned minute by minute, she jotted down on a tape recorder the questions she couldn't answer because she didn't have time now; she had a lover, her boss, who would make her career fast, she had everything. Susanna planned everything, but she hadn't planned one thing: a dark spot on the highway; and there she was after the spot with a green lab coat on, the mask over her mouth, and all her time planning dismantled.
The encounter with the cat and the crude provincial veterinarian will transform over time Susanna who will find herself nauseated with her world, her work, her life. The cat is a kitten to whom Andrea, the vet, amputates her hind leg, names her Camilla and takes her to live with him, old Bartholomew, the faithful dog friend, and the two geese. Andrea is raw, but real, beautiful, cool and sincere, as is his world, the veterinary clinic, his friends, his animals.”
Raffaella Verga lives in Albenga and teaches Psychology of Conflict at ECampus University in Milan. After graduating she specialized with a master's degree in coaching and three master's degrees in NLP. She published her first long story “Storia di un'altra donna” with Firenze libri in 1998; in 2008 her first novel “Con gli occhi degli altri” was published by Albatros il Filo publishing house; again with the same publishing house, in 2010, she published her second novel “Etichette nere per il bene e il male.” “The Domino Effect” is the novel of personal and literary maturation, winner of the first prize in the national literary competition Pannunzio 2013. In 2015, he published with Curcio publishing house the book “But why me?”
