TANGERINN
Sunday, April 12, 2026 | 4:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute, 710 Sansome St, San Francisco
On the occasion of La Piazza – San Francisco Italian Literary Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute San Francisco, in collaboration with the cultural association Librai in corso, presents:
Tangerinn
Europa Edition, 2026
by Emanuela Anechoum
An event hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, featuring author Emanuela Anechoum, in conversation with Enrico Rotelli.
Presentation in English
Event open to the public | Registration required
A luminous debut about the search for belonging, the tension between departure and return, and the legacy of migration, Tangerinn is a novel of memory, a stirring meditation on culture, identity, and inheritance set between London and the windswept beaches of southern Italy.
Mina is thirty and living in London. She fled there at twenty to reinvent herself to escape her small-town past, but a decade later she is drifting, untethered and uncertain. When her Moroccan-born father Omar dies, she returns to her childhood home on the Calabrian coast, where he ran a cafe called the Tangerinn. It was more than just a cafe—it was a gathering place, a haven for migrants and misfits, a dream that Mina’s sister, Aisha, is struggling to keep alive. In searching for traces of her father, Mina begins to piece together her own fractured sense of identity. As she reconnects with the memories embedded in the land, she must confront what it means to belong—not just to a place, but to a lineage, a language, a self.
With precise, sensual prose and an acute sensitivity to atmosphere and emotion, Anechoum delivers a novel that is at once tender and fierce, local and borderless, as intimate as it is political.
EMANUELA ANECHOUM
Emanuela Anechoum was born in Reggio Calabria in 1991 and lives in Rome. After completing her studies, she began working in publishing in London before relocating to Italy. Her writing has appeared in Vice, Doppiozero, and Marvin Rivista. Tangerinn is her debut novel.
ENRICO ROTELLI
Enrico Rotelli is an Italian writer and journalist. His articles about U.S. literature received the Premio Amerigo 2020. He translated The Great Gatsby, and his most recent book, Nanda e io, was awarded with the Visintin Award and the City of Como International Literary Award. He lives between San Francisco and Venice.
Ph. credit: Dario Nicoletti