SETTIMANA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA NEL MONDO
Thursday, October 16 | 6:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute
710 Sansome St, San Francisco
THE NIGHT TREMBLES / TREMA LA NOTTE
Nadia Terranova in conversation with Sara Marinelli
In collaboration with LITQUAKE and the Leonardo da Vinci Society San Francisco
Event open to the public | Registration required
“There is something stronger than pain, and that is habit.” In The Night Trembles, the second English-translated work from award-winning author Nadia Terranova, two stories converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria: a young woman sees a chance to avoid her impending arranged marriage and a boy manages to escape from the influence of an abusive mother on the verge of madness. Written in Terranova’s distinctively lyric style, The Night Trembles is a melancholic ode to human resilience and the promise of the unknown. Join the author in bilingual conversation with USF writing professor Sara Marinelli.
Book sales for this event coordinated by Libreria Pino/Telegraph Hill Books.
NADIA TERRANOVA
Nadia Terranova was born in Messina and lives in Rome. Her most recent book is Quello che so di te (Guanda 2025), finalist at the Premio Strega, the most prestigious literary award in Italy.
SARA MARINELLI
Sara Marinelli is a San Francisco–based writer who grew up in Naples, Italy. Her writing in English is published in New American Writing, Blue Mesa Review, Pummarol; her work in Italian appears in Nazione Indiana, Leggendaria, Alias. A recipient of the 2024–2025 Brown-Handler residency at the San Francisco Public Library, Sara is a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco Opera and an award-winning educator at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches Comparative Literature and Creative Writing.