Incontro con Mariapia Veladiano --- Rassegna letteraria "Il coraggio tra le pagine"

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**Thursday, November 6th** in **Taranto** marks the start of the second edition of the literary festival **"Courage Between the Pages"**, organized by **Volta la carta** in collaboration with **Alzàia Onlus**, which manages the **Anti-Violence Center "Support for Women"** in Taranto. We are pleased to host the writer **Mariapia Veladiano**, with whom we will present her latest novel **Dio della polvere** (**Guanda Publisher**). The event is scheduled for **6:30 PM** at **Mercato Nuovo**. Admission is free.

With her intense and direct writing, the Venetian author delves into the most pressing issue for the Catholic Church, that of often unspoken abuses on young people and women. A book that has the fast-paced and intense rhythm of a dialogue between two people, a woman and a bishop, both determined to save what they hold most dear: the Church and a woman's life. But it's also a novel that shows how long histories of mistakes and violence can be changed; one must have the courage to say enough and take action.

It will be the only date in Puglia for Mariapia Veladiano, a theologian and author of several novels, including La vita accanto, her first, which won the Calvino Prize and came second in the Strega Prize in 2011. In Taranto, she will be in conversation with journalist Vincenzo Parabita of Volta la carta and psychologist and psychotherapist Carmen Palazzo of Alzàia.

THE AUTHOR
Mariapia Veladiano, who graduated in Philosophy and Theology, worked for over thirty years in schools, first as a teacher and then as a principal. Her first novel, "La vita accanto," won the Calvino Prize and came second in the Strega Prize in 2011. Last year, this book was adapted into a film by Marco Tullio Giordana. Guanda has published her essay "Parole di scuola" and the novels "Una storia quasi perfetta," "Lei" (about Mary of Nazareth), "Adesso che sei qui" (winner of the Flaiano Prize 2021), "Quel che ci tiene vivi," "Il tempo è un dio breve," and "Dio della polvere."

THE BOOK
"Please, sit wherever you prefer," says the excellence bishop without lifting his head from the papers, not imagining that the woman entering the room is there to fight. Thus opens the new novel by Mariapia Veladiano, which sees Chiara, a woman of faith and a health professional, a physiotherapist, facing a bishop, a decent man, but perhaps decent is not enough for a bishop. That meeting is only the beginning of a skirmish that will question the structures of power and the inertia that often becomes an accomplice to silence. Because Chiara knocked on the bishop's door for a reason: Luna, a very young girl who arrived in her physiotherapy studio, has been a victim of violence, and even if she does not want to talk about it, her body speaks for her.

Here are the other events of the "Courage Between the Pages" series:
Mariapaola Pesce
Emmeline Pankhurst (BeccoGiallo)
November 20th – 6:30 PM

Mavie Da Ponte
La disobbediente (Marsilio)
December 2nd – 6:30 PM
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