As part of the European Book Club 2020 series, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto will host a discussion with Dr. Laura Mosco on the book Eva Sleeps by Francesca Melandri.
Thursday, November 19 | 6:00pm EST
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What do the lives of Eva and her mother Gerda, from a small village in the northern mountains of Alto Adige (SouthTyrol), have to do with Italian history and politics throughout the XX century? A great deal. Eva Sleeps, Francesca Melandri’s bestseller debut novel, is a captivating story of love, archetypes of patriarchism, resilience and forgiveness, all intertwined with an absorbing and revealing journey into the notion of cultural identity and what constitutes Italy today.
M. Laura Mosco (Laurea cum Laude, Università La Sapienza, Rome; MA/PhD, University of Toronto) is an Arts and Humanities Teaching Excellence Award winner, and has been teaching Italian culture and language from 2000. Laura has published on Italian contemporary literature, the concept of resistance in Italy, and the Italian cultural discourse and social media.