Through three women’s destinies, the Haitian writer Louis-Philippe Dalembert takes the reader on a sensitive and feminine Roman journey where the small story entwines the big one.
Louis-Philippe Dalembert is one of the fine feathers of Haitian literature. He returns today with a novel, infinitely Italian and feminine. Laura Sabatelli Guerrieri De Pretis, her grandmother the Countessa de Prati, Elena her mother and Zia Rachele, her music-loving aunt are our heroines. Four women, Catholic or Jewish, united by the bonds of blood and duty, by the desire to exist as they wish, are the heroines ofA Roman story.
The poet and novelist Louis-Philippe Dalembert explores, with contagious passion, two of the most powerful powers of literature: making us travel and think. We are in Rome, the capital of 200 churches, on both banks of the sparkling Tiber. The Eternal City is the setting of this novel which takes place between the dawn and fall of the 20th century.
We follow the dreams, the daily life and the Dantesque traumas of the characters. The small story entwines the big one. How to reconcile two very strong family histories? How to live in the Eternal City? What did it mean to be Jewish in Italy, during and after the Second World War?
His novel ” A Roman history » is published by Sabine Wespieser.
Louis-Philippe Dalembert is the guest of VMDN.
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