Sunken City
Autor Marta Barone Traducere de Julia MacGibbonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 mai 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788168557
ISBN-10: 1788168550
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 142 x 220 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1788168550
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 142 x 220 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Marta Barone Marta Barone was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and a freelance editor. Her novel Sunken City, translated into six languages, has been shortlisted for the Strega Prize and won the Vittorini and Fiesole Prizes. She is also the author of several children's books.Julia MacGibbon has previously translated non-fiction and poetry. Sunken City is her first translation of a novel. She lives near Rome.
Recenzii
A transfixing amalgam of novel, memoir and history ... exquisite prose
In uncovering her father's story, the author has discovered her own; and her father's story coincides with a dark and partially disremembered chapter in Italy's history ... And given that to find one's father is to find a history, a remembered city resurfaces
This is the perfect book for those who want to understand the fog of those extraordinary years and what happened when it lifted and things became visible again and clear to see... This is a book about paternity as a cleaving into two, and it is an unblinking account of what is to be gained by learning who our fathers really are
Sunken City is a vital book. And it is not just the life story of L.B. Nor is it simply the story of a nation during those tragic years. Because here we embark on a descent into an inferno [...] in which the true protagonist is the writer herself, 'the unsatisfactory daughter', a Dante with no Virgil to guide him
What a blazing debut! - Marta Barone switches as deftly and elegantly as Sciascia would have between the crude inhumanity of court documents regarding her father's trial, recollections of her own bookish adolescence, and a steely chronicle of Italy's infamous 'years of lead'.
Barone masterly weaves dates, recreations, documents and memories of the ones who told her about their story and her 'difficult' father's as well.
Thoughtful and smart - a contemporary-set novel which reaches back into the past of Italy's Years of Lead.
A very powerful and moving book
A wonderful book that breathes life into Italian counterculture as the 60s and 70s and their revolutionary optimism and fervour slip away from us... astute and perceptive
Spellbinding... immersive, original, and sophisticated
That rare thing, a consciously and successfully literary memoir (impeccably translated by Julia MacGibbon) that also tells a story of historical importance... such haunting city landscapes, such speaking domestic interiors, such complex living beings brought back to life! Wonderfully done
In uncovering her father's story, the author has discovered her own; and her father's story coincides with a dark and partially disremembered chapter in Italy's history ... And given that to find one's father is to find a history, a remembered city resurfaces
This is the perfect book for those who want to understand the fog of those extraordinary years and what happened when it lifted and things became visible again and clear to see... This is a book about paternity as a cleaving into two, and it is an unblinking account of what is to be gained by learning who our fathers really are
Sunken City is a vital book. And it is not just the life story of L.B. Nor is it simply the story of a nation during those tragic years. Because here we embark on a descent into an inferno [...] in which the true protagonist is the writer herself, 'the unsatisfactory daughter', a Dante with no Virgil to guide him
What a blazing debut! - Marta Barone switches as deftly and elegantly as Sciascia would have between the crude inhumanity of court documents regarding her father's trial, recollections of her own bookish adolescence, and a steely chronicle of Italy's infamous 'years of lead'.
Barone masterly weaves dates, recreations, documents and memories of the ones who told her about their story and her 'difficult' father's as well.
Thoughtful and smart - a contemporary-set novel which reaches back into the past of Italy's Years of Lead.
A very powerful and moving book
A wonderful book that breathes life into Italian counterculture as the 60s and 70s and their revolutionary optimism and fervour slip away from us... astute and perceptive
Spellbinding... immersive, original, and sophisticated
That rare thing, a consciously and successfully literary memoir (impeccably translated by Julia MacGibbon) that also tells a story of historical importance... such haunting city landscapes, such speaking domestic interiors, such complex living beings brought back to life! Wonderfully done