Pensieri profondamente semplici. L’abbecedario della mia vita – 2025
For the first time in book form, Romina Power chooses an intimate and unconventional way to tell her own story: a personal lexicon, a dictionary of the soul in which each entry becomes a key to exploring memories, emotions and reflections.
Ich nehme dich die hand – 2023
Daria moves into a loft in SoHo. On the threshold of fifty, she is alone, yet accompanied by her dreams, a deep desire to live, and the energy that comes with the promise of a new beginning.
Karma Express – 2017
It is 1970, and eighteen-year-old Daria skips happily around the house, showing everyone the ring given to her by Roger, a promising young man with a well-established future ahead of him. Daria dreams of love, and her family, a classic American upper-class family, crowns that dream with a magnificent engagement party.
But on the eve of the wedding, her wise and farsighted grandmother encourages Daria to be more curious, to travel, and to question herself before steering her life towards the most predictable choice of all: marriage.
Daria persuades Roger to embark on a journey to India aboard the legendary Karma Express, the ramshackle bus that will take the two young travellers, elegant yet utterly unprepared, from Istanbul to Goa. Along the way they cross extraordinary landscapes and share the road with a group of decidedly unconventional young people, encountering a reality far removed from the world they come from.
Daria’s journey becomes one of growth and awakening, allowing the reader to relive the dreams of an entire generation that, in the 1970s, challenged bourgeois certainties and discovered other dimensions, at times illusory, but also profound and spiritual, in the search for self.
Romina Power’s third novel is built through an alternation of flashbacks seen from the mature perspective of its protagonist. Daria is now sixty and looks back with lucidity and irony, never overwhelmed by nostalgia. Yet she also looks ahead, all the way to a surprising ending, as only a fulfilled and serene woman can. And the reader may begin to suspect that Daria’s serenity also belongs, at least in part, to the author herself.
Ti prendo per mano – 2015
New York. Daria moves into a loft in SoHo. She is on the verge of turning fifty, alone, yet accompanied by her dreams, a deep desire to live, and the energy that comes from the possibility of a new beginning.
Then the scene shifts: Tubac, a house overlooking the Arizona desert. Daria goes to visit her elderly mother and is confronted with unexpected news. Her mother has cancer, but she does not want surgery and refuses treatment.
It is the harsh reality against which Daria’s dreams shatter: no more New York, no galleries in which to show her work as a sculptor, and the hope of rebuilding an emotional life set aside.
In this intense novel written in diary form and inspired by her own personal experience, Romina Power confronts illness and grief. She does so with great delicacy, even lightness, moving between different narrative registers. Daria relives the piercing memory of a mother who had once been beautiful and unreachable, and who is now devastated by disease. She accepts, without false modesty or sentimentality, the body’s unstoppable decline. In the end, she finds the strength to step back from the drama of the present through spiritual practice and a healthy dose of irony.
The ending is inevitable, and Daria knows it. Yet the slow passing of the days helps her reconcile with the past and gives new meaning to their relationship. And when death finally arrives, she is ready to welcome it, almost as though she were receiving a bouquet of roses.
Upaya – 2005
This boxed edition contains a film written and directed by Romina Power, in the previously unseen role of screenwriter and director. It is a medium-length film centred on Hans, a nurse in a German hospital, who is tasked with delivering a letter to an unknown recipient in India.
After months of fruitless searching, and a mysterious illness that brings high fevers and strange visions, he sets out on a path of spiritual rebirth.
The film features Paolo Ferrari as the narrator, and Romina Power’s son Yari Carrisi, who composed the music and handled photography and editing. Included with the DVD is a book containing an Indian diary, enriched with photographs, illustrations and paintings, in which the author records her impressions and directorial ideas.
Ho sognato Don Chisciotte – 2000
Tenderness, laughter, confidences, nostalgia and a need for love: these are the emotions accompanying two friends on holiday in Spain. Yet someone is watching them, following them, wishing to steal their lives, their experiences, their secret kisses, the heartbeat that Juan, a young bullfighter, awakens in both of them.
Someone incapable of truly living. Someone who can do nothing but write.
That someone is Mick, an American writer fleeing from himself and from the horror of the blank page.
As Rachel and Ingrid move through a waltz of illusion and seduction, they surrender to the confession of their desires. But it is the music of flamenco that will accompany their fantasies, including that of motherhood, the oldest and deepest desire of every woman.
Searching for my father, Tyrone Power – 1999 – ENG
The eldest daughter of Hollywood legend Tyrone Power, Romina lost her father to a tragic heart attack when he was only forty-four and she was just seven years old. As an adult, with only a few memories of him, she set out to discover the man behind the legend.
Searching for My Father is the result of more than twenty years of research, during which Romina gathered an extraordinary body of interviews and recorded conversations with those who had known and worked with him, including many stars from Hollywood’s golden age.
Cercando mio padre – 1999
The result of approximately twenty-five years of research, during which Romina Power gathered an extraordinary wealth of testimony about her father, Tyrone Power.
Autoritratto dalla A alla R – 1991
“We rolled up our sleeves, filled a bag with notepads and pens, and began to write. Rome, Málaga, Bilbao, Valencia, Berlin, Vienna and Hamburg. We wrote on hotel beds. In dressing rooms between a soundcheck and a concert. We even wrote in the car during the long drives of the 1990 summer tour. But did we really tell everything? Well, not absolutely everything. We did not invent anything, though. We simply left some things unsaid… and since you do not know what they are, dear reader, you will not miss them.”