Biography: Anna Dalton, Italian-Irish, worked as an actress after graduating in Literature at the Sapienza University in Rome. She made her fiction debut with L’apprendista geniale (Garzanti, 2018), followed by La ragazza con le parole in tasca (2019) and Tutto accade per una ragione (2020).
Descriptive text of the book:
A flat in the centre of Rome, a boyfriend, a job as a translator: Eva’s life seems perfect and yet it is a prison because inside that flat her partner is increasingly jealous and violent.
But it is an invisible prison, so much so that sometimes she doubts she has dreamt it and so she trains herself to make everything fit, to want nothing more. Until, in the park of Villa Sciarra, she meets a singular man, the appearance of someone who has lived a long time but whose eyes are luminous, who seems to have known her all her life and wants nothing more than to listen to her, to be passionate about her life.
He accompanies her, just like an Angel, yet leads her to explore the reasons for her desire and dependence on men, just like a tempting Devil.
And along the way he gives her only two pieces of advice: not to fall in love with lovers, and to read poetry, because ‘poetry does not judge and gives space to everyone. Even to those like you’.
