{:en}PRESS RELEASE (6/4/2017)
Saturday, April 8, a Loano, will kick off the new review “The springtime of books”, promoted by the bookstore Mondadori Book Store Loano under the auspices of the Municipality of Loano. In all, there will be three appointments to meet the authors and their works.
The initiative will be opened by Irene Schiavetta, which at the 5:30 pm will present his latest novel “The three ladies” (2016, Coedit).
The Savona writer's novel unfolds between the 1960s and the present day. The protagonists are Assia, an ungainly accountant; Lucille, an artist from a good family; and Olimpia, an elementary school teacher who hides a secret.
What do the three women have in common? Are they mere acquaintances or has a strong bond been established between them, kept secret? Where do they go, crammed into the Seicento, in the company of a small dog? Not even in the village of Folasca, where the favorite pastime is gossip, is there any knowledge of their association, which will only be discovered many years later when the goddaughter of one of them, Emilia, inherits Aunt Olimpia's house and sets about tidying it up before putting it up for sale.
A series of seemingly unrelated items pop up at that point: pages of accounts filled out with meticulous precision, a linen closet without embroidered initials, old documents from a hospital, a photograph of three ladies on a terrace overlooking the sea, a nosy neighbor and another barely glimpsed behind the drawn curtain, a boy walking restlessly through the village, agitated by mysterious thoughts.
Gradually the picture is defined and a story emerges of young women in search of a freedom not shouted, but lived with the uncertainties and fetters still present in the 1960s. Friends ready to support each other, should the need arise, and discreet to a fault “to the point that, if Don Giustino had questioned them, they would not have been able to tell him when, how, with whom.”.
Irene Schiavetta, musician and pianist, lives in Savona. He has performed in concerts and is currently a Conservatory lecturer. He has written several brilliant plays, short stories and librettos; he has collaborated with a major publishing house on works of Italian literature. For Carisch Editions he has written books on piano teaching.
The review will continue on April 20 (h 18.00) with a meeting with the author Sara Rattaro who will present his new novel “Love on you” (2017, Sperling & Kupfer) and will close the May 6 (h 5 p.m.) with the presence of Thomas Pistoia author of the book “The legend of the burqa“ (2016, Ophelia Publishing).{:}
