Il FiglioAn ensemble comedy in which Milan becomes a luxurious existential ambitionIn her first novel, "Di passaggio a Milano", Michela Proietti offers an ironic portrayal of a city where social mobility is still possible for those willing to invest the necessary effort—provided they allow themselves to be swallowed up and transformed—and where one’s postal code effectively defines one’s identity.byLivia Chiriatti24 OCT 26
IL FIGLIO“Noialtre però siamo un casino”. Getting married, running away, laughing at everythingRaffaella Silvestri, author of "La persona peggiore" (Mondadori), deals with gender issues, and the soundness of her thinking underpins the emergence of direct reflections on society and contemporary life – reflections that are never rhetorical, but woven into the narrative byLivia Chiriatti26 SEP 26
IL FIGLIOIvie’s battle with the system’s lightMaria Grazia Calandrone tells the story of a mother who has been fighting for over ten years to regain custody of her daughters, Grace and Mercy, who were taken from her by the Italian state on 19 June 2014, aged two and a half and twenty days respectivelybyLivia Chiriatti12 SEP 26
Muriel ScintillaThe penniless girls and their schemes to have fun (and to save themselves?)Muriel Spark’s novella is set towards the end of the Second World War in a London ravaged by bombing. The protagonists live in an elegant yet dilapidated residence, reserved for ‘young women of modest means under the age of thirty who are forced to live away from their families in order to pursue a career in London’byLivia Chiriatti25 JUL 26
