XXIV edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World, The theme is "Italian and books: the world between the lines"
Thu, Nov 07
|Chevy Chase
Evening with the author


Ora e luogo
Nov 07, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Chevy Chase, 4601 N Park Ave, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, United States
Ospiti
Informazioni sull'evento
Introduction by Donatella Melucci
With a style that fascinates and intrigues from the first page, Laura Benedetti tells the sweet and never saccharine story of three generations of women who end up in Maryland and Utah from Abruzzo. What is striking about the book, in addition to the interesting, current and thought-provoking story, is the way of writing that says a lot with a few words.
in a modest cinerary urn, Alice's mortal remains follow with estranged participation the events of the two generations of women that the old librarian from Abruzzo who moved to the United States left behind.Locked
the heroine of an almost complete conformism, and her granddaughter Sara, a sulky adolescent in the midst of a crisis of moral growth and sexual identity, do their utmost to respect the emigrant matriarch's dazed last wishes, and the youngest offers to take her ashes to Italy.Her daughter Jane,
A different country from the one inscribed in her imagination, as different as the figure of her missing grandmother, in a journey that forces her to measure the distance between past and present, illusion and reality, the reasons of those who leave and those who stay. (https://www.pacinieditore.it/prodotto/un-paese-di-carta/)awaits her
addresses issues of cultural identity, family ties, uprooting and loss.A Paper Country
The English version, was published in 2022 by New Academia Publishing.A Country of Paper,
Italian Literature at Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA) where she is also Chair of the Department of Italian Studies.Laura Benedetti is Professor of