Casa Aurea Letteraria, Casoria literary review: first meeting with Antonio Menna for “The little girl without a smile”.
The city of Casoria puts the spotlight on reading and does so with the first edition of Casa Aurea, a literary review promoted by the Councilor for Culture Vincenzo Russo.
On the calendar for meetings dedicated to different genres of narrative and authors,
five events designed to tell stories and experiences born from the pen of established writers, involving young readers of the territory in order to promote a conscious approach to writing and the worlds that gravitate around it.
Guest of the first literary moment organized on September 5, at 18.30:XNUMX pm, at the Mons. Mauro Piscopo Library in Casoria, the writer Antonio Menna. The prolific author and well-known signature of the daily newspaper Il Mattino, presents his latest work, 'La Bambina senza il sorriso', Marsilio editions.
A thriller full of suspense and irony, a choral story of fathers and sons, read by young boys from the parish of San Giustino de Jacobis, and told aloud by the writer.
The literary meeting will be moderated by journalist Pina Stendardo.
Synopsis of 'The Girl Without a Smile'
The protagonist of the novel is Chiaretta, nine years old and without a smile. She laughs, in reality, but it doesn't show. Due to a disorder she has had since birth, when her brain sends the stimulus her mouth remains still, as if made of chalk. However, there is one person who notices when she laughs: her father, Carmine. Only him. One morning in March, while the two are walking in the Spanish Quarters of Naples, the little girl suddenly loses sight of him. The man disappears. No one is worried, since in recent years Carmine has already left several times, only to return home.
But Chiaretta does, and trying to get news of her, she ends up ringing the doorbell of Tony Perduto, a precarious journalist who lives alone in that area of the Neapolitan city. Tony opens the door suspiciously and listens to her, only to be sucked into the center of a mystery on which he builds, little by little - against everyone and even against his will - a meticulous investigation, guided only by his curiosity and animated by the thousand voices of the alleys of Naples.
Thus, piece by piece, a thriller full of suspense and irony is composed, a choral story of fathers and sons that flows - like the Sebeto, a river lost in the subsoil of Naples - beneath official lives, to recompose itself, surprisingly, in the shadows, in the most hidden folds, in that truth that, like the smile of the little girl, is there deep down. Even if only those who know how to look can see it.
Article published on 31 August 2022 - 13:10
