The Night Trembles: Nadia Terranova with Sara Marinelli

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-07:00

Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco | San Francisco

Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival
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The Night Trembles: Nadia Terranova with Sara Marinelli
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"There is something stronger than pain, and that is habit."
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In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco

Part of Words Around the World

“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. Doors at 6:00pm. FREE

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Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, 710 Sansome Street, San Francisco, United States

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