Literary Tuesdays: January's guest Piera Carlomagno with 'The cold cut of the moon'

New appointment, the first of 2023, with the review “Martedì Letterari”, organized by the Association “Rinascita – Commercianti di Battipaglia”, chaired by Lucia Ferraioli, coordinated by the journalist Andrea Picariello and part of the format “La biblioteca è anche tua”.

The event scheduled for January will feature Piera Carlomagno, journalist and writer, who will present her novel “Il taglio freddo della luna”, published by Solferino.

At 19:00 pm on Tuesday 31 December, at the bar room “In Centro”, in via Giuseppe Mazzini 70, in Battipaglia, the book presentation will be held with the presence of the author herself. This will be an opportunity to discover not only the secrets of this novel, with captivating noir shades, but also to discuss with the author her interesting literary production and more.

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During the presentation of “Il taglio freddo della luna” it will be possible to purchase a copy of the book and receive a special dedication from the author. The event will also be broadcast live on the Facebook page of “La biblioteca è anche tua”.

THE BOOK

The last moments of quiet, the last flash of lightheartedness: it is the beginning of the late summer lunch that Marina Pietrofesa Cortese, eighty-year-old matriarch, has prepared for her family, on one of the elegant beaches of the Ionian coast of Lucania. Of course it is strange that Wlady, Marina's favorite nephew, has not arrived, but his absence is only a ripple in the golden atmosphere that envelops that family of ancient landowners. Viola Guarino's day is very different, called to analyze a crime scene that seems like a theatrical backdrop: Professor Vittorio Ambroselli killed like Marat in the bathtub of his house full of works of art. Someone like Ambroselli, reflect the investigators, including the charming deputy prosecutor Loris Ferrara, could have many enemies: he was the physicist of the Irreversible Pit where, a few kilometers from there, in the 1950s, American nuclear waste had been hidden. And when the relationship between her seventeen-year-old daughter Ginevra and the young Wlady comes to light – whose absence begins to take on the appearance of a disappearance – the two cases appear unmistakably linked. Is the solution found only in the present or in a past that, like nuclear waste, is buried in the depths of guilt? The last summer of innocence: an event, an experience, a topos that for the protagonists of this story returns and repeats itself like a curse. Piera Carlomagno weaves in this new noir a masterful plot of shadows in which this time even the indomitable Viola Guarino, a pathologist and a bit of a witch, will struggle not to get entangled.

THE AUTHOR

Piera Carlomagno is a professional journalist and writes for “Il Mattino”; with the novel “Una favolosa estate di morte”, published by Rizzoli, she won the Romiti prize of «Ombre», Emergenti section, at the Caffeina Festival in Viterbo. She is the artistic director of the SalerNoir Festival, which reached its eighth edition in the summer of 2022. She graduated in Chinese and translated a play by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. With Solferino she published “Nero lucano” (2021).