Please join us for an unmissable evening with Cristina Battocletti, author of “Epigenetica” (La Nave di Teseo, 2025), who will meet her readers here at the Institute.
Her novel, which won the Flaiano Award 2024, follows the protagonist Maria and her journey towards establishing herself as a writer after being abandoned by her father during childhood and witnessing the subsequent psychological and physical decline of her mother. This left her caught between her two brothers, Pietro and Paolo, and practically abandoned to herself.
The key to Maria’s journey lies in the book’s title: Epigenetics. The trauma she endured altered the behaviour of her genes, which may also have affected her son, Emanuele, who, like her, chose to escape. A beautiful book where neuroscience and literature merge on the background of a scenic lagoon in Grado.
The meeting is held in the context of the Italian Book Club hosted at the Institute by Enrica Ferrara, who will be moderating the conversation in both English and Italian. A toast will follow. Booking is free on this website.
Cristina Battocletti, originally from Cividale del Friuli, is a writer, journalist for the “Domenica” of the “Sole 24 Ore”, film critic. In 2015 she published the novel “La mantella del diavolo”, which won the Latisana prize for the North-East and was a finalist for the Bergamo, Rapallo and Asti prizes. La nave di Teseo published “Bobi Bazlen. L’ombra di Trieste” in 2017, winner of the Comisso and Martoglio prizes, “Giorgio Strehler. Il ragazzo di Trieste” in 2021, and in 2022 the new edition of “Figlio di nessuno”, written with Boris Pahor, winner of the Manzoni prize for the best historical novel in 2012. She lives in Milan and has two daughters, Olga and Nora.
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