Arriving tomorrow in bookstores and online stores is 'La memoria delle pietre' (The Memory of Stones), the new novel by Katya Maugeri, sociologist and journalist, published by Nulla Die. The story moves between 1950s Paris and a small Sicilian village, two distant places that meet through a manuscript resurfaced from a forgotten archive. Starting from those pages, Enea Laurent, a scholar of "shared memories," launches a research journey that leads him into a story where past and present intertwine through details, absences and silences.
The novel unfolds as an inner and relational investigation, in which the author's sociological perspective explores the mechanisms that can lurk beneath everyday life. Manipulation, control, psychological violence and dynamics of abuse enter the narrative, along with the theme of femicide, addressed as an inquiry into the roots of violence and the processes that can render it invisible, tolerated or normalised.
At the heart of the novel is also the possibility of recognising the mechanisms transmitted through relationships and interrupting patterns destined to repeat themselves. Through places, objects, words and memories, 'La memoria delle pietre' becomes a reflection on hidden violence, on identity and on the necessity of naming what has for too long remained unspoken.
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