Presentation “The Time of Who Knows”

A building haunted by history where time, instead of flowing, settles on things: a breath is enough for it to swirl back into the air. It is here that the friendship between Ico and Ada is born, before the world imposes the urge to marginalize, divide, and exclude. Theirs is a bond that endures war and resists it. Even when he embraces the partisan adventure and she is forced to leave her beloved Turin, they never stop counting on each other. But not all stories go this way. Because one morning, in that same building, the Auerbach family receives a letter in just a few lines announcing the revocation of their Italian citizenship. And what remains when you lose who you are?

Elena Loewenthal writes an intimate and universal novel, which forces us to look out, once again, into the abyss of our twentieth century. We need to return, perhaps, to understand that we never left.

Presentation of the book “Il tempo dei chissà” by Elena Loewenthal, published by Einaudi. Gian Mario Gillio will be in conversation with the author.

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