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By @w.festuccia 


Patrizia and I, after having done a couple of hours of running barefoot on the Livorno seafront, are going to have breakfast in a bar in the port and we will tell you all about one of her books.

- Patrizia, what shall we order?

- Me cappuccino and two cream bombs.

- I milk rum and half a kilo of pizza with mortadella.

- But, Walter, won't it hurt you?

- You're right, please, put some sugar in the rum ... Very well, Patrizia Poli, are you ready for the 8  questions?

Let’s go.

- But no, don't worry, with two cream bombs you will feel like a bomb too.

- Ah!

- Ok, question number 1 ... Can you tell us about the publisher of “Una casa di vento”?

Marchetti Editore is a small and courageous publishing house, which focuses on quality rather than quantity. It has an international spirit (it also translates English writers from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century) but is strongly rooted in the area with some series of local imprint.

- Question number 2 ... What is your novel about? Title please?

The novel is entitled “A house of wind”. It tells of human imperfection, of a sense of guilt, of complicated relationships between parents and children, between spouses and between brothers; it does so by entering the minds of the characters without filters and without discounts, up to the most unspeakable secrets, up to the sick part of each of us.


- Question number 3 ... Are you optimistic?

No, I am not, by nature.

- Question number 4 ... The soundtrack of your novel.

Perhaps the violin music that one of the protagonists plays.

- Question number 5 ... It is a demanding and emotionally intense text, what difficulties did you overcome?

Unlike my other novels, The Man of the Smile (Marchetti 2015) and Signora dei Filtri (Marchetti 2017), where I had to document a lot and study, here the difficulty was all emotional. There is a piece of my family history inside, altered to the point that my mother got angry. There are pieces of life in it of people I have known. There are a lot of emotions that I know and a lot of me too.

- Question number 5 ... The keystone of your story?

Certainly the death of little Loris who acts as a catalyst for all events.

- Question number 6 ... The menu of a probable and imaginative dinner where you will invite your readers to buy your book.

Since this is a novel set in my city, amidst the screech of seagulls, splashes of brackish and libeccio winds, undoubtedly an excellent fish dinner accompanied by a good sparkling white wine.

- Question number 7 ... What are your plans for the future?

Very many: I have already finished writing a historical novel freely inspired by the life of Saint Margaret of Hungary, another one where I worked in four hands with my friend writer Federica Cabras, and finally one connected to the legend of the Holy Grail. Now I am writing a book on the brontë sisters.

- Question number 8 ... This historical period is self-centered and devalued, what is your liberating recipe?

Sometimes you need to have the courage of selfishness without ceasing to respect your neighbor.

- Patrizia, thank you for answering my questions, would you like to say something else to our loyal readers?

- Read a lot, read well. Teach children the pleasure of reading.

- Patrizia Poli what do we do now?

- Boh? Shall we do some more running?

- Mmm ... After this breakfast, wouldn't you like to go for a ride on a Vespa?

- The one with the Kawasaki engine?

- No, I swapped it for a Tesla.

- Are we already in the future?

- I like this thing.

Very well, dear readers, we like it too if you liked us, now Patrizia Poli and I are jumping on a Vespa, maybe I will lend it to you, but, before going for a ride, we greet you and look forward to seeing you

8 questions to Patrizia Poli