“Tutta la vita che resta”

Roberta Recchia will present the book 'Tutta la vita che resta', published by Rizzoli, on Thursday 8 August at 6 p.m. at the Nuova Libreria Cappelli in Bolzano.
The meeting will be moderated by journalist Alessandra Tortosa.
No booking required.

Roberta Recchia (Rome, 1972) is a graduate in European and American Languages and Literature and in Relations Interculturelles et Coopération Internationale. She worked for many years in business and then took up teaching, but has always dedicated herself to writing: Tutta la vita che resta, currently being published in fourteen countries including the United Kingdom, France and Spain, is her first novel.

Tutta la vita che resta (All the life that remains) is a precious and very sweet novel, painful, cosy, intimate and choral, which explores the mechanisms of shame and mourning, but above all of affection and care, and brings them to the surface with a skilful delicacy, capable of enchanting and surprising.

A tear that seemed impossible to mend, a family that over the years finds its way back into the strength of bonds. There are books that get inside you, that take you by the hand through everyday life. This is what happens with Roberta Recchia's magnetic debut, a story from which you cannot detach yourself, with living, authentic protagonists. Like Marisa and Stelvio Ansaldo, who in 1950s Rome fall in love in the workshop of sor Ettore, her father. Theirs is one of those families from black and white love films, until, years later, their beloved 16-year-old daughter Betta - beautiful and resourceful - is killed on the Latium coast, and everyone loses their centre. That mutual affection and complicity are gone, only the grief for their daughter lost forever. No one knows, however, that along with Betta on the beach was her cousin Miriam, on the contrary shy and introverted, also a victim of unspeakable violence. Against the backdrop of an investigation slowed down by omissions and prejudice towards a teenager who faced life with all the exuberance of her age, Marisa and Miriam must confront the daily burden of their own tragedy. The secret of that night becomes a boulder for Miriam until - by now on the brink - her encounter with Leo, a young man from the suburbs, brings an unexpected light: the beginning of a love that breaks through where no one dared look.

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