Bisaccia, presentation of the book “Memories of a Janara”

Sunday 9 March “Memories of a Janara” arrives at the Ducal Castle of Bisaccia. The presentation of Emanuela Sica's work, as part of the event "Janare or Princesses: the infinite conflict of being a woman", will be held at 5:00 pm and can be followed remotely. With the reading of excerpts from the book, selected "Casa Sanremo Writers" 2025, the author will participate.

Between the cracked walls of an abandoned house, almost swallowed up by vegetation, in the district nicknamed "Li Pacci", under a pile of old junk, hidden like a barely whispered secret, a child found a manuscript. On the surface you could see the writing "Memories of a Janara". From that moment on, an ancestral journey begins, in a land steeped in mystery, capable of revealing reality and legends together with the arcane force of those who were able to intertwine the visible of nature with the invisible of the soul. Thus that boundary, between present and past, dissolves... while the voice of a woman begins to tell a story of rebellion and freedom. Her throat bears fruit words that overcome the silence of preconceptions and that can only be heard by those who are ready to discover the truth of who was a herbaria and not a witch but was pointed out and persecuted for ignorance (along with many women who suffered the same fate). A complex work, a bridge between generations that develops through different languages: it is a novel, a poem, a long vernacular tale that links myth and memory, history and tradition, fantasy and invention.

Emanuela Sica was born in Avellino in 1975 and lives in Guardia Lombardi. She has published poetry collections, poems in anthologies, poetry and prose, fiction, as well as short stories in various anthologies and the essay "ROSSO Vdg-0 Antologia sulla violenza di genere" (2021, Delta 3 Edizioni). She is a cassation lawyer, a freelance journalist, and an activist for women's rights against gender violence. She directs the Anti-Gender Violence Area of ​​the International Relief Corps. She collaborates with newspapers, magazines, and blogs.