Francesca Giannone Presenta "Domani, Domani"

THURSDAY 8 AND FRIDAY 9 AUGUST THE WRITER FRANCESCA GIANNONE PRESENTS "DOMANI, DOMANI" IN LECCE AND ALESSANO.

After the incredible success of her debut novel "La portalettere", the best-selling Italian book of 2023, winner of the Bancarella Prize and the I Love This Book Prize, currently being translated into almost 40 countries worldwide, writer Francesca Giannone returns to Salento to present her recent work "Domani, Domani", published by Edizioni Nord. On Thursday, August 8th (8:30 pm | free entry until seats are full | info 0832404612 - conversazionisulfuturo.it) the author, interviewed by Vincenzo Maruccio (head editor of Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia), will be at the Chiostro degli Agostiniani on Viale Michele De Pietro in Lecce as a guest of the fourth edition of Agostiniani Libri, a literary event organized by the Municipality of Lecce and the Ognibene Library, in collaboration with Diffondiamo idee di valore, Conversazioni sul futuro, and Mondadori BookStore. On Friday, August 9th (8:30 pm | free entry | info 3496415030 - www.festivalarmonia.it) in Piazza Castello in Alessano, in collaboration with the municipal library "Antonio Caloro", Francesca Giannone, in dialogue with Elisa Maggio and Michela Santoro, will be the protagonist of a special event for the tenth edition of the "Armonia. Narrazioni in Terra d'Otranto" festival, organized by the Idrusa Bookstore in Alessano and the Narrazioni association, with artistic direction by Mario Desiati, dedicated to the theme of Freedom to Be.

THE BOOK
Salento, 1959. Lorenzo and Agnese have lost everything. They realize this when their father, with the sad eyes he has carried with him all his life, announces that he has sold the family soap factory, an inheritance he has lived as a curse. For Lorenzo and Agnese, however, that factory that their grandfather created from scratch, which smells of talcum powder, floral essences, and vegetable oils, and which occupies all their thoughts, was the certainty of a peaceful present and the promise of a future to be traced together, united. Therefore, the idea of ??staying there as simple workers under a new, arrogant boss is devastating for both of them. Lorenzo, proud and impulsive, leaves slamming the door, his heart full of anger and with only one goal: to find the money needed to reclaim what is his. But Agnese does not follow him: as resolute as when it comes to making soaps, as insecure when it comes to living in the world outside the soap factory, she declares: "I'll stay where my home is." It is a deep, seemingly unbridgeable crack that opens between brother and sister and will push them onto opposite and unpredictable paths. Because Lorenzo and Agnese want the same thing, at least until love brings them to a new crossroads. Each of them will make a choice, tracing a different tomorrow... Will it be a regret-free tomorrow for both? This is the story of the passion that first unites and then divides a brother and a sister. A story that speaks of decisions made by listening to the mind or the heart or both. Of that moment that can change a whole life. But also of an Italy that, incredulously, is discovering a sudden prosperity, working on the assembly line and then singing with Mina and dancing to the rhythm of the twist, young, creative, impatient.

THE AUTHOR
Francesca Giannone, from Salento, graduated in Communication Sciences and studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In Bologna, she cataloged the thirty thousand volumes of the Luigi Bernardi Association and attended the two-year writing course at the Bottega di Narrazione "Finzioni". Her debut novel, La portalettere, was incredibly successful: being translated into 37 countries, it was the best-selling Italian novel of 2023, winning the Bancarella Prize and the I Love This Book Prize.