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Lontano dalla vetta – Di donne felici e capre ribelli by Caterina Soffici

Tuesday 8 November, 7pm

Lontano dalla vetta – Di donne felici e capre ribelli by Caterina Soffici (Ponte alle Grazie)

The author in conversation with Ornella Tarantola

IN ITALIAN

There are those who go to the mountains searching for the essence of life, to escape their own ghosts and anxieties. Then there are those, like the author, who just find themselves there, by chance. She was dreaming of balmy weather and the beaches of the Mediterranean, but an Event has brought her to a chalet on the Alps, 1700 metres high, in a village just below the Monte Rosa glacier, where, thanks to a flock of goats, a pack of wolves, an eagle and some fairy-like characters, she has realized that you can lead a simpler life and (maybe) find happiness in the small things. It doesn’t take much to slow down and live in a different way: walking, breathing, chopping wood, practicing yoga or just sitting on a rock, warmed up by the sun. You don’t have to run to get to the top, because what you need is not to get higher and higher, rather to reclaim your own pace of life.

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Caterina Soffici was born in Florence. She is a columnist for Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, and also writes for literary magazine Tuttolibri and Vanity Fair. She has written Ma le donne no (2010), Italia yes Italia no (2014) Nessuno può fermarmi (2017) and Quello che possiedi (2021), all published in Italy by Feltrinelli. She believes you can change the world thanks to the power of the words and for this reason holds writing courses at the Ministry of Stories, the East London workshop that teaches disadvantaged children how to use creativity, memory and storytelling. She lives between London and a small village in the Alps with her husband, two children and a dog.

Ornella Tarantola is the Director of the Italian Bookshop in South Kensington, London.

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