• Casermetta San Regolo
Sunday 17th November, 15.00-16.30
Tangerinn
Book presentation with the author Emanuela Anechoum, in conversation with Irene Paganucci and Alfredo Marasti of Millimètrica APS
The novel of a generation that knows it must leave, ignoring the destination. In a world ruled by uncertainty and false idols, a young woman travels between the big metropolis, the small village by the sea, the fantastic Morocco of an adored but elusive father.
Mina is in her thirties and leads a carefully constructed life in London with little spontaneity, in a spasmodic attempt to finally feel ‘right’. One evening she receives a phone call from her mother: her father has died. Mina returns home for the funeral, but ends up staying for a long time. Home is the outskirts of a seaside town where her father ran a small beach bar frequented mostly by immigrants. Omar had tried with that bar to create a small community for all those who did not feel welcome in that new land. In that strange place where no one seems to be where they belong, where people all too often appear as ghosts that pass and vanish, Mina finds her family, friends and above all her memories of her father, this mythical, elusive, eternal migrant with a mysterious past in Morocco.
In this sensual but at times almost metaphysical adventure, Mina will discover that roots are only an elusive dream, a desire to find oneself in a common story, in a deep affection that will make us forget, at least at times, the ferocity of the world and the wounds of abandonment.
Emanuela Anechoum
Emanuela Anechoum was born in Reggio Calabria in 1991 and lives in Rome. After her studies, she started working in the publishing world in London and later moved to Italy. She has written for Vice, Doppiozero, Marvin Rivista. Tangerinn, winner of the Selezione Bancarella 2024 Prize, is her first novel.
