Vincenzo Latronico @ OGR Talks
presents the novel Una splendida rovina, in conversation with Luca Misculin

Monday, 21 September 2026 | 6.30 PM
OGR Torino, Duomo

An OGR Torino event in collaboration with Einaudi

At the end of the event, there will be a book signing with the author

Free admission
Reservations available

On Monday, 21 September at 6.30 PM, in the Duomo at OGR Torino, Vincenzo Latronico presents his new novel Una splendida rovina (A Splendid Ruin), published by Einaudi, in conversation with Il Post’s journalist Luca Misculin.

Fleeing the city, finding a ruined castle, buying it and restoring it, in order to imagine a different life: this is the dream that sets in motion the story of a young couple who invest all their savings in a manor house in a remote village in Pomerania.

As renovation work moves forward, slows down and multiplies endlessly, the novel tells the story of a tragicomic and almost impossible undertaking, populated by unlikely characters, domestic pitfalls and desires that do not always align with reality.

Una splendida rovina stages the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations of a generation grappling with the housing crisis, precarity, love, self-deception and the universal need to find one’s place in the world.

VINCENZO LATRONICO

Vincenzo Latronico, writer and translator, was born in Rome and lives in Milan. His novel Le perfezioni (The Perfections) (2022, winner of the Mondello Prize, longlisted for the Premio Strega and later shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize) has been translated into 43 languages. He has published The Berlin Key (2023) with Einaudi. He contributes to The Guardian and Internazionale.

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