EPIGENETICA

An extraordinary novel that explores the depths of a family memory, where the brightest remembrances stand side by side with the most hidden secrets. Battocletti reveals with strength and delicacy our frailties and wounds.

Every thought we process, every emotion we feel, spreads through our body to be passed on to our children's descendants. Maria grows up with her siblings, Pietro and Paolo, and their mother in the wild part of island of Grado, where the water is too shallow to swim in. Suddenly, the father, with an M drawn on the back of his head, disappears without ever coming back. For Maria and her siblings, anarchy begins, but also the end of the family, which is violently broken up. Maria will write her story in a book full of nostalgia that will be welcomed with dazzling success, burned out so quickly that it plunges her into the same maternal insanity. After many unanswered questions, the mysteries of discomfort and the genetic transmission of emotions and thoughts trace the tender but painful portrait of two women facing the paradox of the mother-daughter bond. Cristina Battocletti is a writer, journalist for "Domenica - Il Sole 24 Ore", and film critic. She co-wrote with Boris Pahor the biography Figlio di nessuno (Rizzoli, 2012), Manzoni prize for best historical novel, republished in June 2022 by La nave di Teseo with unpublished texts. Among her works: La mantella del diavolo (Bompiani, 2015), winner of Latisana Prize for the Northeast; Bobi Bazlen. L'ombra di Trieste (La Nave di Teseo, 2017), winner of the Comisso and Martoglio awards; and Giorgio Strehler. Il ragazzo di Trieste. Vita, morte, miracoli (La Nave di Teseo, 2021)