Igiaba Scego

"This book depicts the soul and the body of a daughter and a father, illuminating words that are used every day and swiftly emptied of meaning: migrants, diaspora, refugees, separation, hope, humiliation, death.” --Panorama "Igiaba Scego is an original voice who connects Italy’s present with its colonial past. Adua is an important novel that obliges the country to confront both memory and truth.”--Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio Adua, an immigrant from Somalia to Italy, has lived in Rome for nearly forty years. She came seeking freedom from a strict father and an oppressive regime, but her dreams of becoming a film star ended in shame. Now that the civil war in Somalia is over, her homeland calls her. Yet Adua has a husband who needs her, a young man, also an immigrant, who braved a dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. When her father, who worked as an interpreter for Mussolini’s fascist regime, dies, Adua inherits the family home. She must decide whether to make the journey back to reclaim her material inheritance, but also how to take charge of her own story and build a future. Igiaba Scego is an Italian novelist and journalist. She was born in Rome in 1974 to Somali parents who took refuge in Italy following a coup d’�tat in their native country, where her father served as foreign minister.

Adua

Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi

La linea del colore

Blanca Gago

Mi casa está donde estoy yo

La mia casa è dove sono

Caminhando contra o vento Caminhando contra o vento é um ensaio-depoimento apaixonado sobre Caetano Veloso, um dos maiores ídolos da música popular brasileira. Nele, a escritora italiana Igiaba Scego faz um percurso afetivo por sua vida, suas músicas, e todo o universo de Caetano. Letras de músicas, passagens biográficas e fatos colhidos em entrevistas compõem uma bela homenagem ao artista brasileiro.

Caminhando Contra O Vento

"Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--

Beyond Babylon

Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn’t let that stop her. The daughter of a Chippewa woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in 1887, living in Rome as one of the city’s most established painters, she is ready to tell her fiancé about her difficult life, which began in a poor family forty years earlier. In 2019, an Italian art curator of Somali origin is desperately trying to bring to Europe her younger cousin, who is only sixteen and has already tried to reach Italy on a long, treacherous journey. While organizing an art exhibition that will combine the paintings of Lafanu Brown with the artworks of young migrants, the curator becomes more and more obsessed with the life and secrets of the nineteenth-century painter. Weaving together these two vibrant voices, Igiaba Scego has crafted a powerful exploration of what it means to be “other,” to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman, in a foreign country, yesterday and today.

A Novel

The Color Line

»Tänker man bara läsa en enda bok detta decennium, bör det bli denna. Betyg: 5 av 5.« BTJ I Jag är Adua får vi följa tre personer som lämnar Somalia för Italien under tre olika historiska perioder: den italienska kolonialismen, Somalia på 1970-talet och nutiden, då Medelhavet har förvandlats till en grav under öppen himmel. Zoppe lockas till Rom för att arbeta som tolk under trettiotalet och blir ett verktyg i Mussolinis imperiebyggnad italienska Östafrika. På sjuttiotalet flyr hans dotter Adua den socialistiska diktaturen i Somalia till Rom med drömmar om att bli filmstjärna, en ny Marilyn Monroe. Men villkoren för en svart kvinna i den tidens italienska filmindustri är hårda, och efter illa betalda roller i mjukporrfilmer som bryter ner hennes själ och kropp fastnar hon i Rom och åldras i ensamhet och självförakt. I en kombination av barmhärtighet och behov av närhet och uppskattning gifter hon sig med Titanic, en mycket ung somalier som kommit illegalt i gummibåt över Medelhavet. Jag är Adua är en högaktuell roman som sätter frågor om migration, rasism, tillhörighet och identitet på sin spets. IGIABA SCEGO är författare och journalist, född i Rom 1974 av somaliska invandrare. Hon har blivit en uppmärksammad röst i den italienska samtidslitteraturen, inte minst för att hon sätter fingret på den identitetsproblematik som många med tillhörighet i två kulturer upplever. En av hennes artiklar om flyktingar som tvingas göra den livsfarliga resan till Europa över havet, »Det är ingen tragedi, det är dråp« [2015], översattes till svenska och publicerades i DN. Hon uppmärksammades också som en av tre starka italienska författare i Cecilia Schwartzs artikel »Kvinnorna som tänjer på Italiens litteratur« i SvD under våren 2016. »Karaktärernas levda erfarenheter är köttsliga, sinnliga med tydliga bilder och dofter. Den svenska översättningen av Helena Monti är en fröjd att läsa. En viktig bok.« Calle Flognman, Tidningen Kulturen

Jag är Adua

Lorenza Pieri

Lisa Ginzburg

Claudia Durastanti

Ilaria Gaspari

Ritanna Armeni

Chiara Lalli

Laura Pugno

Veronica Raimo

Chiara Tagliaferri

Cristina Marconi

Angela Bubba

Elisa Casseri

ANNA MARINELLA SICCARDI

Maria Grazia Calandrone

Tea Ranno

Sedici scrittrice per sedici grandi donne. In questa sorprendente raccolta, molte fra le più amate e apprezzate scrittrici italiane raccontano altrettante «muse»: donne sfrontate e bellissime o, al contrario, miti e riservate che, per lo spazio di una notte o per l’esistenza intera, hanno stretto relazioni complesse (e pericolose) con uomini di successo. Muse non sempre «gettate» ma per lo più misconosciute – dando così corpo all’odioso detto secondo cui «dietro ogni grande uomo c’è una grande donna» – che tornano dunque, finalmente, al centro del palcoscenico letterario. Le pioniere della psicanalisi e Kate Moss dalle cento copertine, Kiki regina di Montparnasse per una notte e Maria Callas la Divina per sempre, Nadia Krupskaja che lavora a realizzare il socialismo, Rosalind Franklin che scopre la struttura del DNA, le ispiratrici di pittori, musicisti, scrittori, filosofi: spaziando fra epoche e luoghi diversi, destini felici e infelici, Musa e getta giunge al cospetto di leggende viventi, persino sbarcate su Instagram, come Amanda Lear. Sedici autrici di prim’ordine svelano qui altrettante donne meravigliose, offrendo a lettrici e lettori uno sguardo nuovo sul rapporto tra i sessi, l’identità femminile, la lotta per l’emancipazione. Le scrittrici: Ritanna Armeni, Angela Bubba, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Elisa Casseri, Claudia Durastanti, Ilaria Gaspari, Lisa Ginzburg, Chiara Lalli, Cristina Marconi, Lorenza Pieri, Laura Pugno, Veronica Raimo, Tea Ranno, Igiaba Scego, Anna Siccardi, Chiara Tagliaferri. Le muse: Lou Andreas-Salomé, Luisa Baccara, Maria Callas, Pamela Des Barres, Zelda Fitzgerald, Rosalind Franklin, Jeanne Hébuterne, Kiki de Montparnasse, Nadia Krupskaja, Amanda Lear, Alene Lee, Dora Maar, Kate Moss, Regine Olsen, Sabina Spielrein. a cura di Arianna Ninchi e Silvia Siravo

Sedici scrittrici per sedici donne indimenticabili (ma a volte dimenticate)

Musa e getta

Rhoda

Oltre Babilonia

Ingy Mubiayi

Laila Wadia

Gabriella Kuruvilla

La prima generazione di figlie di immigrati, nata o cresciuta in Italia, racconta la propria identità divisa, a cavallo tra il nuovo e la tradizione, una identità obliqua, preziosa, su misura. Quattro voci, otto storie, molte culture. Lincrocio dei mondi e delle esperienze, tra integrazione e diversità, accoglienza e rifiuto. Tra noi e loro. La raccolta è stata curata da Flavia Capitani e Emanuele Coen.

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