Hugo Racca will present his new book La ragazza del motorino arancione (Giunti) on the GO stage, together with Elena Alibrandi, Horacio Pagani, Diego Loreggian, and Francesca Carol Rolla. The event will be moderated by journalist Eva Edili.

The book:

Casilda, Argentina, 2010. Alejandro Guardiola is a wealthy businessman, widower, and profoundly unhappy. María Soledad Ordóñez—known to everyone as Lara—is a street girl: she tells people her job is cleaning, but in reality she prostitutes herself under the protection of a drug trafficker. Alejandro is impotent, Lara is incapable of love. They lead two seemingly incompatible lives: different friends, different circles—he needs love, she needs money. Yet, on a spring evening, when Alejandro meets that dark-haired girl of few words riding her orange Vespa, nothing will ever be the same. Her gentle manners, soft voice, and restless gaze—often distracted by the messages lighting up her phone—captivate him from the very first moment. Within just a few months, he will find himself entangled in the shady underworld of a Casilda he had never known, and in the middle of an international investigation. A short but intense novel about love and all its shades.

The author:

Hugo Racca is a successful entrepreneur from Casilda, Argentina. He is the author of Pagani, the Story of a Dream(Arteimmagine, 2010). The Girl with the Orange Scooter is his narrative debut.