Oliva Denaro

"I am not attracted to weddings. That is why I do not walk the streets, but run: male interest is like the wind, but with hands — it seems it might reach out to me."

The novel by Viola Ardone is about the formation of a personality. It is about a girl who wanted to be free in an era when being born a woman was a sentence. The author astonishingly transforms a real story into a literary one, narrating the contradictions of love, the relationships between fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, about a desire that simultaneously draws and frightens, especially when it is realized through force.