Litquake – Fall of the Florios: Stefania Auci with Sara Marinelli
7:00-8:30 pm PT
Telegraph Hill Books | 1501 Grant Ave | San Francisco, CA
Event admission is free. A $10–15 donation is suggested.
Join Stefania Auci and Sara Marinelli as they discuss Stefania’s latest book, Fall of the Florios, the magnificent conclusion of the bestselling Florios trilogy—an international sensation based on a real-life family, published in 40 countries and adapted into the TV series Lions of Sicily for Disney+ and Hulu. In Fall of the Florios, Auci chronicles the decline of Italy’s most powerful and notorious family against the ever-shifting social landscape of 1890s-1930s Sicily. For more than 60 years, the Florios have reigned supreme, establishing the city of Palermo as a European beacon of commerce, and making Sicily one of Italy’s most powerful regions. But now fate has taken a turn. Join the author in bilingual conversation with USF writing professor Sara Marinelli!
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, is celebrating 25 years! Their 2024 Festival runs from 10/10 – 10/26 with 140+ events taking place all over the Bay Area and featuring 500+ authors and performers. The full schedule is available at litquake.org(opens in a new tab).
Part of Litquake’s Words Around the World
Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press
Stefania Auci, a Trapani-born, Palermo-adopted teacher, is author of The Florios of Sicily, a literary sensation that went on to sell over 1,500,000 copies in Italy alone before being published in over 40 countries and forming the basis of The Lions of Sicily, a successful series available on Disney+ and Hulu.