Monday, June 24, 2019

The Spirit of the Delta - Anyone inspired out there?





Even the marshes of the Fraser Delta, BC can be mesmerizing if seen from another angle. Drones can provide that extra perspective. Together with music (beautiful soundtrack choice).

There is a story to be told, of a young woman and her connection with the spirit of the delta. Low land, high life. Cult book and cult movie stuff.


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Sunday, June 16, 2019

Book signing of "The Afrikaner" in Van!

Join me for a chat and book signing of my novel “The Afrikaner” (Guernica, Toronto, 2019)
WHERE: Indigo Robson Bookstore (1033 Robson St, Vancouver)
WHEN: Saturday, June 29,  1.30 pm-7.00 pm. 
The Afrikaner: “A tale of hate, love, guilt and redemption under African skies”
The book was inspired by the five years I spent in the southern African region as an international reporter for the Italian press. I now live in Vancouver.
BOOK WEBSITE: https://blogs.ubc.ca/afrikaner/
Check it out and share wildly!
Cheers, Arianna
P.S. I am on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arianna.dagnino


Saturday, June 15, 2019

Reading Aja Gabel's "The Ensemble" in Van


I read this book watching the ships moored in Vancouver waters.

Apparently simple, apparently written in a very accessible language, Aja Gabel’s "The Ensemble" works like a perfectly orchestrated mechanism. 
Its structure reminds of a Bach’s fugue, with eight voices (those of four talented members of a string quartet and those of their instruments) entering in conversation in a contrapuntal way.
The main theme is aging, meant as the process of acquiring maturity through life experience and the way this process is reflected in the quartet’s music performance across time.
If at a young age players can technically master a music score it is only after having fought the usual life’s battles that they are able to infuse into their playing the sound of their anguished souls. And that’s when the audience truly responds, recognizing the ancient, never-ending call for communion through the artistic medium. But also acknowledging that some of the freshness and candour of the youth can still be preserved in the – more or less creative – transition into adulthood and – alas! – senility.
That’s the book’s lesson in a nutshell. Saying more than this would mean giving out too much of the novel. Long live the music, the child and the artist within us!


"The Afrikaner" shortlisted "Best Fiction 2020" by Miramichi Reader

Arianna Dagnino's THE AFRIKANER shortlisted for 'BEST BOOK' by Miramichi Reader. “Best Fiction” is the most popular categor...