Libri in Nizza: Nadia Terranova

End: 18:00 At the Libri in Nizza festival Francesca Cappelletti presents the essay Caravaggio, una vita in dieci quadri (Mondadori), in conversation with Arturo Galansino. At the Libri in Nizza festival Nadia Terranova presents the novel finalist for the Premio Strega Quello che so di te (Guanda), in conversation with Andrea Giuseppe Cerra . Faced with her newly born daughter, a woman decides to explore the story of her great-grandmother, interned in the Mandalari asylum in Messina, through a web of memories, unreliable details and possible lies. Alongside the female figures, the men also emerge: fathers capable of fighting in war but also of becoming frightened and getting lost. In this family novel dense with mysteries and generational silences, between invention and reality, Nadia Terranova invites us to return to the places of the past in order to reclaim them, delivering an intense story about the power of memory and the ability to move through it in order to understand one’s own identity. ________ Nadia Terranova is the author of the novels Gli anni al contrario (2015, winner of numerous prizes including the Bagutta Opera Prima, the Brancati and the American The Bridge Book Award), Addio fantasmi (2018, finalist for the Premio