Giorgia Tribuiani lives in Pescara and runs the Bottega di Narrazione with Giulio Mozzi.
He made his debut in 2018 with the novel Guasti, published by Voland, and has published the novels Blu (2021) and Padri (2022) with Fazi. The long stories Binari, published by Hopefulmonster in the Pennisole series directed by Dario Voltolini, and Superstar, published by Tetra-, are also from 2022.
Title: Pieces
Author: Giorgia Tribuiani
Publisher: Il Saggiatore, 2026
Rights: R. Vivian Literary Agency
Synopsis
In a rural village isolated by mountains and snow, where people don't have proper names and communication is entrusted to "blackbirds," strange birds the size of children, a package arrives one Sunday containing the severed joint of a finger and the rules of a game. Participation is simple: the "piece" belongs to a person in the community, and all the villagers have a week to guess who it is. The prize is the man's liberation.
The villagers are overwhelmed by horror and grief. They eagerly gather, analyze the phalanx in minute detail, try to count their numbers and ponder who might be missing, but they can't resolve the matter. The next day, therefore, the blackbirds give them a new clue: a new "piece"—an ear—of the absent fellow villager. This time, however, observation and reflection yield no results, so the village landowner tries to resolve the matter by giving the blackbirds money to take to the kidnapper.
On the morning of the third day, however, the blackbirds return with a third piece and a much larger sum of money. To demonstrate that the matter has nothing to do with money, but also to encourage participation and commitment, the kidnapper raises the stakes. From this point on, the villagers, having ascertained that it is not their loved ones who are missing, gradually become less cooperative, keeping the alleged clues to themselves; concern for their own financial well-being supersedes concern for the unfortunate victim, while the figure of a scapegoat begins to emerge, as always happens in great collective tragedies.
PEN Grant America for the Translation of Italian Literature”.
Publisher: Fazi Editore
Date published February 24, 2022
Translation rights: Fazi publisher
Film rights: Fazi publisher
It is a spring afternoon when, with the same body and the same age as the day of his death, Diego Valli rises again. He wakes up on the landing of what had been his apartment, takes out the keys, tries to put them in the lock but finds himself face to face with his son Oscar, left a child and aged over forty years. From here, a story of reconciliations and detachments begins, an intense and sincere story about the relationship between fathers and children and the need for forgiveness. Once he recognizes his father, Oscar faces the understandable estrangement by clinging to the chores of everyday life, while Clara, his wife, does not believe in the miracle and opposes the idea of hosting a stranger at home. To complicate matters, we add the arrival of Gaia, the couple's daughter, who returns to her hometown to spend the holidays. Hidden from her mother, who is often away for work, Gaia finally has the opportunity to meet her grandfather: a profound man, a lover of music, more like her than her father ever was. On the contrary, Oscar will discover aspects of Diego that he didn't think belonged to him.
After "Blu", Giorgia Tribuiani returns with a novel about a three-part story of anger and pain, unspoken words and second chances. A reflection on the family with an original plot in the balance between reality and impossible for an author who knows how to dig into the human soul to bring out the repressed and stimulate understanding. «'Fathers' testifies how immense spaces can be revealed in minimal stories. A book of love in a broad sense, as acceptance and acceptance of the other, therefore understanding of the human beyond one's individual perimeter. Of course there is even more: the voice of forgiveness, the generosity of always offering other opportunities in the face of lack, absence, the always possible errors that accompany the days we are given. In the end, one would just say, from the writer as from the reader: it is not niene, it is only life ». (Remo Rapino )
Ginevra, known to everyone as Blue since childhood, is seventeen years old, attends art school and is a lonely girl trapped in a world of her own made of obsessive rituals and superstitious gestures. His parents are divorced and Blu lives with his mother, a woman who works a lot and is often away from home. Blu has a boyfriend, who she is unable to leave because she is devoured by guilt, a boy she would like to love and whose presence, instead, she barely bears. The only thing he really loves is art, and drawing is an activity in which he proves to be talented. So, when during a school trip she attends a performance art exhibition, she is struck by that way of expressing the creative act and by the artist herself, to the point of developing a real obsession for her. At this point, the manic thoughts become more and more oppressive, until her determination to be a good girl leads her to experience a subtle and dangerous split of personality.
A strong and different novel that draws us into the claustrophobic mind of a teenager, a prisoner of morbid actions and incomprehensible manias, to the point of revealing its delusional mechanism.
The fast, unpredictable rhythm and the density of the writing perfectly render the psychological torment of the protagonist and the incessant inner struggle to defeat her double.
A book that confirms the great talent of Giorgia Tribuiani, new and original author, capable of identifying herself and fully expressing the essence and torment of her characters.