Book Presentation: Se la vita ti offre limoni

When: Friday 9th May 2025, 6:30PM

Where: SIAL.school, 154-156 Holland Park Avenue, W114UH London (closest tube station: Holland Park)

Join us for a free event organised in collaboration with Italian_books  and hosted at SIAL.school, in Holland Park, London.

Mirko Zullo, in conversation with Ornella Tarantola will present his new book “Se la vita ti offre limoni".

The book

Marco can never choose between a cone or a cup, he never has the right answer at the right time, and he has always left everything halfway. Studies, dreams, relationships. The only constant presence in his life is Maria, with whom he became engaged in his final year of high school. She works as a secretary at a law firm, while he works as a video operator for Iacopo, an eccentric producer of pornographic films. However, she doesn’t know this, because Marco believes that lying is equivalent to protecting.

In just a few years, Marco will become a partner at Capriccio Production, one of the most promising Italian porn production companies founded by Iacopo. The game will hold up as long as the porn industry market doesn’t change.

Bankrupt and abandoned by Maria, who has discovered the truth, Marco wonders if the compromises he has made have really had any meaning. All he wants is to try to save that future in which, after all, neither he nor Maria seem to have stopped believing.

Mirko Zullo
Born in 1983, he lives and works as a writer and director between Verbania and Milan.
In 2018, he published Nonnasballo (Cairo Editore), a novel that won the Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Zanibelli Sanofi.
In 2024, he published Se la vita ti offre limoni (Santelli Editore). As part of his cinematographic career, he directed the 2022 film Il violinista, starring Edoardo Romano and Davide Mengaccine, distributed by Amazon Prime Video. A docufilm about Italian comedy, Il bar del Cult, will be released in 2025.

Please note that the whole event will be held in Italian.

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