What to do for Christmas: read! The new book L’Età Segreta by Spanish writer Eugenia Rico is a must-have under the tree.
Starting over! How many times do we wish we could start again? A new life, a new city, a new adventure… This is the story of her, of him, and of change. She is twenty years older than him, but what matters is the journey they take together in search of the last Neanderthal and the secret of Nauchipan. It is a youthful infatuation with life and love, and a woman’s journey toward a legendary city where, it is said, the mystery of the Secret Age has been kept for millennia.
L’età segreta by Eugenia Rico, recently released in Italian bookstores and published by Elliot, is a novel about second chances in life. A story of resurrection that tells what happens when you think you have already experienced everything and life gives you an unexpected surprise.
Tuesday, December 15, from 4 PM to 6 PM, Spanish writer Eugenia Rico will be signing copies of L’età segreta at VinoVero in Fondamenta della Misericordia, Venice.
Wednesday, December 16, at 6 PM, live on the Elliot Edizioni Facebook page, Eugenia Rico presents the novel. Featuring Alessandro Mezzena Lona.
With her latest novel, translated into Italian for the first time by Pierpaolo and Andrea Marchetti, the Spanish writer recounts with extraordinary poetry and beauty the anxieties, desires, fragilities, and the indomitable strength to start over that women possess in any place and at any time.
An international bestselling author and a Venetian resident for many years, Eugenia Rico is the first Spanish writer to be awarded the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and to win the Bauer International Literary Prize in 2018.
While Gianrico Carofiglio says of her, “Eugenia Rico’s prose is clear yet never cold, seemingly warmed by tradition and echoes of a distant time,” the late Luis Sepúlveda wrote that Eugenia’s is “one of the most original voices in Spanish fiction.”
Eugenia Rico awaits you at Vino Vero from 4 PM to 6 PM on Tuesday, December 15, to sign your Christmas gifts, and live on Facebook on Wednesday, December 16, at 6 PM on the Elliot Edizioni Facebook page, featuring Alessandro Mezzena Lona.
Watch the interview with Eugenia Rico for Creatrici di Futuro at Fondaco dei Tedeschi. The last photo is by Marco Paris.
VinoVero
Fondamenta della Misericordia 2497
Cannaregio, Venice
+39 041 2750044
If you cannot attend the book signing, purchase the book online
