Gabriella Ghermandi “Queen of Flowers and Pearls: Telling History Through Stories.”
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time
2:30 p.m.
Description
This narrative performance is based on Ghermandi’s novel Regina di Fiori e di perle (Donzelli, 2007) / Queen of Flowers and Pearls (Indiana UP, 2017). The novel rotates around the figure of Mahlet, a young Ethiopian girl with a gift for storytelling, who is inspired by the elderly Yacob who tells her stories of Ethiopians who fought in the resistance against the Italian occupation of Ethiopia.
Cost
Free