Milano, 23 Oct. (askanews) – A restless and brilliant woman, a sudden inheritance, changes and complications, dreams and problems when at a certain point these seem to come true, and also the landscape of Liguria, which accompanies the whole story. Lia Piano wrote the novel for Bompiani The art of getting lost – Story of my moves.
“Moving – the writer told askanews – is practically her means of transport, that is, the only way of moving that she knows is by collecting everything she owns and moving along with her entire life. Then every move, we all know, scares so much because it is also a great opportunity to reinvent oneself, to rethink oneself in a new space, to finally come to terms with something that is no longer worth carry with you something that you have to go and look for elsewhere. So in short it is a word that contains many others, a Matryoshka word, it has many inside it”.
«Life as one big move»: Lia Piano talks about the book The art of getting lost
The story told by Lia Piano is brilliant, it shows glimpses of contemporary life that are extremely topical, and thrives on empathy for its protagonist. But it also tells us about the world of rules, and how the unexpected always arrives and, in books, is a powerful narrative engine.
“I really liked the idea of also talking about a construction site – he added – because bureaucracy plays a bad joke on the protagonist of this novel, who in the very first pages inherits a house, not simply a house, she inherits the house that she has literally always dreamed of, except that she understands that if everything went so smoothly I wouldn’t have written a novel about it. So together with the inheritance of the house also comes a certificate of uninhabitability. So she initially decides to illegally occupy her same house, becomes the squatter of himself and then understands that instead he will have to face, in addition to the moves that mark the time of the novel, also this renovation”.
Eventually things find a way to go where they belong and the stories fit together as they should. The book has made its move: from the page to the reader, who has made it his own, recognizing it.
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