'Tormented Loves and Lighthouses at the End of the World', presentation in Rome of the new book by Max Giovagnoli

A collection of 12 short stories that explore 12 different forms of love linked to the stories of 12 adventurous lighthouses scattered around the world

The new book by Max Giovagnoli 'Tormentati Amori e Fari in Capo al Mondo' (Bakemono Lab Edizioni) will be presented today at 7 pm at the Shell bookshop in Rome. It is a collection of 12 stories that investigate 12 different forms of love linked to the stories of 12 adventurous lighthouses scattered across the world. From Brittany to Iceland, from Scotland to the Tremiti Islands, from Madagascar to Maine, from Africa to Borneo, the protagonists of the stories travel in the company of Abraham and Coleridge, Hopper and Sappho, Dalla and Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Bradbury, chasing the desperate need of man to love (and push himself) beyond every limit.

For a single moment or in relationships that last a lifetime, the voices of the characters exchange and weave a web, but each of them searches in their own destiny for an answer to the same question: what do we really feel, what is there of us in them, and why does our soul warm every time we approach the lighthouse towers that unscrew in the night, miles and miles from the coast and yet just a millimeter from our hearts.

Leonardo Luccone, literary critic and director of the Oblique agency, will be in conversation with the writer - the leading Italian expert in transmedia storytelling, director of the School of Visual Arts at IED in Rome and of festivals dedicated to the interactions between cinema and new narrative forms - with a live painting performance curated by Asia Montinaro, author of the illustrations in the book.