Join us for the upcoming author talk with Monica Pareschi, who will present her novel Inverness (Alessandro Polidoro Publisher, 2024), moderated by Enrica Ferrara. The event will take place on Thursday, February 5th at 6:30 PM at the Institute. In italian and English.
With Inverness, book finalist for the 2025 Campiello Prize, Monica Pareschi returns to fiction with a work based on the most hidden feelings, on the monstrous, glassy little things that we all harbour while we love and hate. A constellation of stories that slowly tear the soul apart, like Swarovski crystals. In these stories, there is an ancient fear in encounters with others: wrong and missed encounters, fatal encounters. Poisonous kisses. Girls with repulsive flaws. Cold and intolerable goodbyes, partly reciprocated and mistaken for eternal curses. The fine line between truly seeing each other and being horrified.
Monica Pareschi is a literary translator, writer, and editor. She has curated and translated works by Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, Doris Lessing, Willa Cather, James Ballard, Bernard Malamud, Paul Auster, Alice McDermott, Shirley Jackson, and Mark Haddon, among others.
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