Diego De Silva comes to GO to present his latest book I titoli di coda di una vita insieme (Einaudi) together with Marco Vichi!

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The Book:

Fosco and Alice loved each other deeply. And soon, without really knowing why, they will say goodbye. For this reason, amidst a whirlwind of words that are more or less right, or more or less wrong, late-night embraces, slammed doors, brand-new lawyers, and old grievances, they decide to tell their story in their own way. With persistence, pain, and even irony — all the things that could never find space in legal documents. Diego De Silva lets his most beloved character, the "failed lawyer" Vincenzo Malinconico, take a break and gives us a great novel about the end of love.

"Love is not one story, but two." This is why Fosco and Alice have entrusted their respective lawyers with the words they can no longer say to each other. Alice seeks a dramatic conclusion, as if the greatness of a love could be measured by the wounds, by the pain one can inflict. She wants emphasis, conflict, drama. Fosco, on the other hand, is softer, almost passive, inclined to accept any condition. In the end, like in all separations, their positions will be reduced to humiliating documents, which say nothing because they know nothing of a life together. They summarize the pain, and even the joy, in poor words. To rewrite the end credits of their story with a different dignity, they decide to retreat to a beloved house, among the ghosts of the past and of what was betrayed — whether the happy years of childhood, the beautiful time when they were learning the world, their lifelong friends, or their own relationship. Being there, in that house, also means seeking a common spark: their spark. It means traversing regrets together until the suffering is exhausted, extracting from the wreckage of time what remains alive, and finding the strength to confront things, even when they are terrifying. Without abandoning the irony that characterizes him, as a way to shed light on what matters, Diego De Silva powerfully conveys, through the voices of Fosco and Alice, the hopes, disappointments, buried happiness, and the complicated tangle of feelings that always accompany the end of love.

The Author:

A writer, journalist, and screenwriter from Naples, Diego De Silva has published several books, including the novel Certain Children (Certi bambini, Einaudi, 2001), which was shortlisted for the Campiello Prize and later adapted into a film directed by the Frazzi brothers, with a screenplay co-written with Marcello Fois. Also published by Einaudi are his novels The Spare Woman (La donna di scorta, 2001), I Want to Watch (Voglio guardare, 2002), From Another Flesh(Da un'altra carne, 2004), I Didn't Understand Anything (Non avevo capito niente, 2007, winner of the Premio Napoli, and finalist for the Strega Prize), and the play Closed House (Casa chiusa), published alongside the works of Valeria Parrella and Antonio Pascale in the collection Three Thirds (Tre terzi). In 2010, a new novel, My Mother-in-Law Drinks(Mia suocera beve), featuring the character Vincenzo Malinconico, who first appeared in I Didn't Understand Anything, was released. In 2011, I’m Against Emotions (Sono contrario alle emozioni) was published, followed by Missing(Mancarsi) in 2012 and Deal with It, Malinconico (Arrangiati Malinconico) in 2013. His stories have appeared in the anthologies Deserters (Disertori), Crimes (Crimini), and Italian Crimes (Crimini italiani) in 2000, 2005, and 2008. His books have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Greek. He has also worked on several television screenplays and wrote the episode Teresa’s Hideout (Il covo di Teresa) for the TV series Crimes(Crimini).

In 2014, a collection of crime stories titled Criminal Games (Giochi criminali) was published, where his story Free Legal Aid (Patrocinio gratuito) appears alongside works by De Giovanni, De Cataldo, and Lucarelli. In 2020, The Values That Matter (I’d Rather Not Have Discovered Them) (I valori che contano (avrei preferito non scoprirli)) was released by Einaudi, followed the next year by Malinconico’s Minima (Le minime di Malinconico). Among his other works are I’m Happy, Where Did I Go Wrong? (Sono felice, dove ho sbagliato?, Einaudi, 2022) and The End Credits of a Life Together (I titoli di coda di una vita insieme, Einaudi, 2024).