At the Villa Butera Theater “Desìata” the choral novel by Antonella Marascia
Friday, March 1, 2024, at 6 p.m.
A very narrow and dramatically topical theme “feminicide” for a novel that is a whirlwind of emotions and tells a true story. It is “Desìata. A true story etched in the wind.” published by Multiverso, the book by Antonella Marascia that will be presented on Friday, March 1, 2024, at 6 p.m, at the Villa Butera Theater.
At the presentation will be present for institutional greetings, the mayor of Bagheria Filippo Maria Tripoli and Daniele Vella councillor for Culture.
Dialoguing with the author will be Giada Lo Porto journalist and Daniela Amato secretary general of the municipality of Bagheria. Municipal gornalist Marina Mancini will moderate the meeting.
The book is a biographical novel based on a story of feminicide that really happened in the early 1900s in Mazara del Vallo.
The author’s grandmother “My grandmother Maria told a fragment of this story when I was 20 years old. A very young girl had married against her parents’ wishes a man, Vanni, who turned out to be violent and killed her during the Feast of San Vito because she had cut the picture of his first wife into a thousand pieces”.
Synopsis. The author travels with delicacy and depth into the lives and thoughts of the witnesses to Desìata’s tragic end. A timely introspection that makes us see the same story from different angles; an exercise in style as impetuous as the winds that accompany the narrative.
Antonella Marascia conducts a thorough historical research that led her to the writing of the novel, traveling deep into the lives and thoughts of the witnesses of Desìata’s tragic end. It is a timely introspection that makes us see the same story from different angles with an exercise in style as impetuous as the winds she recounts in the story and which blow over Mazzara del Vallo.
The author was born in Levanto (SP) to Sicilian parents. She grew up in Mazara del Vallo (TP) where she currently lives. A graduate in Political Science and Administration Science, she served for 44 years in local public administration, ending her career as secretary and general manager of the Metropolitan City of Palermo. An expert in local development, a trainer and a lover of folk traditions, in 2022 she published the book “C’era ‘na vota e c’era,” a collection of fairy tales and fables from the Sicilian oral tradition, Multiverso publisher. Desìata is her first novel.
