Amsterdam – Amsterdam not as a place, but as an invention: a city reclaimed from the sea, built through persistence and quiet determination. In Ad Amsterdam con Van Gogh, published by Giulio Perrone Editore, Federica Graziani guides readers on a layered journey into the soul of Mokum Alef, through waters that retain traces of past lives and silences that guard what everyone knows has happened.
In conversation with writer Franco Tirletti, Graziani will present her book at the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam this evening, Friday 30 January, at 6:30 pm.
Following the invisible footsteps of Van Gogh - and of those who, like him, sought to reveal “what lies in the heart of a strange one” - the book moves through counterfeiters and philosophers, rebels and stolen bicycles, ducklings and curtainless windows. The result is a rarefied, two-voiced mystery that, like an authentic forgery, investigates the subtle boundary between what appears and what remains hidden.
It is a city that reveals itself only to those who know how to look beyond the surface. Perhaps.
At the end of the presentation, the author will be available to sign copies of the Italian-language edition. Books will be available for purchase in collaboration with Alfabeto Libri.