Synopsis

In his stories, crafted with the finesse of Carver and Salinger, Paolo Cognetti has always captured the feminine universe with intensity. And yet another woman is the protagonist of "Sofia Always Dresses in Black," a novel composed of ten independent stories that follow her through thirty years of life: from her childhood in a seemingly normal, yet tense, middle-class family, to her adolescence plagued by psychological disorders, to her liberating discovery of sex and a passion for theater, to her maturity and her assessments. With precise and intense writing, Cognetti offers us the portrait of a female character: a troubled and restless woman, capable of surviving her own neuroses and exploiting sudden moments of enlightenment until she laboriously finds her own path.