Storie & Libri

Sara Gambazza presents her new novel When Flowers Have Time for Me (Longanesi).

Parma, 1922. Anita is not a wife. She is not a mother in the conventional sense. She has no man, nor a true home. To the village, she is just the Bórda. But Anita is much more: she is a survivor, a fierce and loving mother who would do anything to protect her daughters from a world that rejects and judges them mercilessly. While Italy is engulfed in the violence of the squadristi and hunger grips the city's alleys, Anita fights her private war. Amidst uprisings, injustices, and secrets buried under the dust of the streets, "When Flowers Have Time for Me" is the story of a mother who doesn’t give up, of two young girls who soon become women in search of a different destiny, and of a world where being poor meant being invisible but never resigned, ready to fight for themselves and their peers. An intense and poignant novel, populated by a humanity that suffers but has the strength to be reborn, even under bombs, even in the face of a love that seems impossible. Because even in the mud of existence, beauty can be born.

At the end, there will be a cocktail with the author.