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Thirsty Sea (Paperback)
Erica Mou; Translated by Clarissa Botsford
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Maria owns an eccentric business: her clients pay her to come up
with ideas for presents. She spends her days thinking about how
best to wrap up love. Nicola, her boyfriend, a wealthy pilot ready
to settle down, seemed the perfect catch. But in this book, what is
left unsaid is uncannily prominent. In fact, Nicola's anxiety turns
into sharp body aches at night and a constant need to check Maria's
phone messages. Maria never finds the keys to enter their
apartment, nor the courage to leave it. After she killed her
sister, 25 years ago, reproach in her mother's eyes is
ever-present. But in 24 hours, an unexpected event turns everything
upside down. Maria realises that she has a job she does not want, a
partner she does not manage to leave and the power to decide who
she wants to be. Thirsty Sea is a psychological portrait of all the
insecurities and challenges of a young woman in a restless search
for her own place in life.
When Hana's dying uncle calls her back from the city to the family
home in the Albanian mountains, he tries to marry her to a local
man who could run the household. Unable to accept the arranged
marriage and determined to remain independent, Hana's only option
is to follow tradition and vow to live the rest of her life in
chastity as a man - and so Hana becomes Mark. For a sworn virgin,
there is no way back.Years later, Mark - now a raki-drinking,
chain-smoking shepherd - receives an invitation to join a cousin in
the US. This may be Mark's only chance to escape his vow. But what
does he know about being an American woman?
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Nives (Paperback)
Sacha Naspini; Translated by Clarissa Botsford
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Tell Me About It (Paperback)
Sacha Naspini; Translated by Clarissa Botsford
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R323
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A HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL STORY OF UNDYING LOVE "A delightful story of
the muddled, confusing time of love after loss."-Booklist Nives has
recently lost her husband of fifty years. She didn't cry when she
found him dead in the pig pen, she didn't cry at the funeral, but
now loneliness has set in. When she decides to bring her favourite
chicken inside for company, she is surprised to discover that the
chicken's company is a more than adequate replacement for her dead
husband. But one day, Giacomina goes stiff in front of the tv.
Unable to rouse the paralysed chicken, Nives has no choice but to
call the town veterinarian, Loriano Bottai, an old acquaintance of
hers. What follows is a phone call that seems to last a lifetime, a
phone call that becomes a novel. Their conversation veers from the
chicken to the past-to the life they once shared, the secrets they
never had the courage to reveal, wounds that never healed. Tell Me
About It reverberates with the kinds of stories we tell ourselves
at night when we cannot sleep: stories of love lost, of
abandonment, of silent and heart-breaking nostalgia, of joy,
laughter, and despair. With delicate yet sharp prose and raw,
astonishing honesty, Naspini bravely explores the core of our
shared humanity.
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The Missing Word (Paperback)
Concita De Gregorio; Translated by Clarissa Botsford
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"Like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, De Gregorio takes a true story
and reveals what life cannot. Extraordinary."-Grazia Irina's life
with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian
living in Switzerland, she works as a lawyer. One day, something
breaks. The marriage ends without apparent trauma, but on a weekend
seemingly like any other, the girls' father takes Alessia and Livia
away with him. They disappear. A few days later the man takes his
own life. Of the girls, there is no trace. Concita De Gregorio
takes the unadorned, terrible facts of this true story and embodies
the protagonist's voice. In a narrative that is fast and urgent,
she unravels these traumatic events to tell the story of a mother
bereft of her children - a state for which there is no word. An
urgently told story and a fierce portrait of a woman in all her
frailty and courage, The Missing Word delves deep into Irina's
thoughts and memories as she grasps at the shreds of truth and,
piece by piece, stitches her life back together.
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Oxygen (Paperback)
Sacha Naspini; Translated by Clarissa Botsford
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SHORTLISTED: DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2022 What
would you do if one day you found out the person who raised you is
a monster? Laura disappeared into thin air in 1999, at eight years
old. She was found in a metal container, fourteen years later. Luca
is having dinner with his father dinner when they are interrupted
by a visit from the carabinieri, who take his father away. Luca can
only watch the scene unfold, helpless. The charges brought against
esteemed anthropologist Carlo Maria Balestri are extremely grave:
multiple counts of abduction, torture, murder, and concealing his
victims' bodies. What would you do if one day you found out that
the person who raised you was a monster? Oxygen is a story of the
aftermath of such evil. Balestri's capture does not end the hell he
created. The professor's perverse experiment continues: he may no
longer be able to imprison children in iron boxes, but the legacy
of his crimes still reverberates through the lives of all those
close to him and his victims. The question that continues to ring
out is: who locked up who?
The tragic history of mid-century Europe told through the lives of
ordinary people 1938. Thirty-two countries convene to decide how to
deal with the influx of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria. Good
intentions abound, but no government is willing to accept the
refugees. At the same time, Fascist Italy is introducing its
infamous racial laws. In this new, stirring novel Lia Levi portrays
Italy's tragic past through the story of a Jewish family, plagued
by doubts, passions, weaknesses, impulses, and betrayals. Set in
Genoa in the years of the racial laws, the novel follows a would-be
genius son, a disappointed, regretful mother, a wise but irresolute
father, an eccentric grandfather, nosy uncles, cousins who are
always coming and going. How do individuals face the darkest
periods of history? Will anyone rebel against the spread of
violence and discrimination? Will anyone welcome them if this
family flees certain persecution? A harrowing story that resonates
with special urgency in our time.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive
biography of Primo Levi. Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi
(1919-87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of
the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An
Identikit, a product of twenty years of research, Marco Belpoliti
explores Levi's tormented life, his trajectory as a writer and
intellectual, and, above all, his multifaceted and complex oeuvre.
Organized in a mosaic format, this volume devotes a different
chapter to each of Levi's books. In addition to tracing the history
of each book's composition, publication, and literary influences,
Belpoliti explores their contents across the many worlds of Primo
Levi: from chemistry to anthropology, biology to ethology, space
flights to linguistics. If This Is a Man, his initially rejected
masterpiece, is also reread with a fresh perspective. We learn of
dreams, animals, and travel; of literary writing, comedy, and
tragedy; of shame, memory, and the relationship with other writers
such as Franz Kafka and Georges Perec, Jean Amery and Varlam
Shalamov. Fundamental themes such as Judaism, the camp, and
testimony innervate the book, which is complemented by photographs
and letters found by the author in hitherto unexplored archives.
This will be the definitive book on Primo Levi, a treasure trove of
stories and reflections that paint a rich, nuanced composite
portrait of one of the twentieth century's most unique and urgent
voices.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive
biography of Primo Levi. Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi
(1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of
the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An
Identikit, a product of twenty years of research, Marco Belpoliti
explores Levi’s tormented life, his trajectory as a writer and
intellectual, and, above all, his multifaceted and complex oeuvre.
 Organized in a mosaic format, this volume devotes a
different chapter to each of Levi’s books. In addition to tracing
the history of each book’s composition, publication, and literary
influences, Belpoliti explores their contents across the many
worlds of Primo Levi: from chemistry to anthropology, biology to
ethology, space flights to linguistics. If This Is a Man, his
initially rejected masterpiece, is also reread with a fresh
perspective. We learn of dreams, animals, and travel; of literary
writing, comedy, and tragedy; of shame, memory, and the
relationship with other writers such as Franz Kafka and Georges
Perec, Jean Améry and Varlam Shalamov. Fundamental themes such as
Judaism, the camp, and testimony innervate the book, which is
complemented by photographs and letters found by the author in
hitherto unexplored archives. Â This will be the definitive
book on Primo Levi, a treasure trove of stories and reflections
that paint a rich, nuanced composite portrait of one of the
twentieth century’s most unique and urgent voices.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s
Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s
Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl
defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own
life. As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of
pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old
Oliva Denaro dares to challenge convention, ignoring the taunts of
peers, her mother’s scolds, and her own changing body. Spirited
and carefree, she loves to run until her lungs burst: to feel the
strength of her lithe limbs, to relish the freedom she cherishes,
to honor the friends forced by propriety to conform. Though she
knows she cannot stop growing up, Oliva resists the future. To her,
becoming a woman means denying oneself. But adulthood comes all too
quickly when the baker’s son sets his sights on her. Offered a
blood orange, Oliva—haunted by her mother’s warning, “a girl
who smiles has already said yes”—spurns the fruit. Yet, this
act sets into motion an unwanted courtship that will force Oliva to
fight for the right to choose her own path, even though the odds of
winning are steep. While America and Europe are in the throes of
social change, Sicily fiercely clings to its rigid traditions,
including the custom of fuitina –by which kidnappings could be
disguised as elopements– which is accepted and enshrined in law.
Oliva’s battle for independence is based on the real-life story
that would ultimately rock Italy–capturing the attention of both
the Pope and the nation’s president—and transform life for all
Italians. The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro is a lyrical tale
of staggering beauty. Viola Ardone beautifully evokes a land and
its people, customs, and passions, and breathes life into an
unforgettable girl in all her intensity, desperation, perseverance,
and bravery. Alternating between the lighthearted and the tragic,
it is a classic coming-of-age novel—powerful, spellbinding, and
liberating. Translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford
"The innocence of childhood collides with the stark aftermath of
war in this wrenching and ultimately redemptive tale of family,
seemingly impossible choices, and the winding paths to destiny,
which sometimes take us to places far beyond our imaginings." -
Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We
Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends "Ardone's beautifully
crafted story explores the meaning of identity and
belonging...recommended to fans of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan
novels." - The Library Journal "[The Children's Train] leaves you
with a great sense of the importance of family and the tough
decisions that must be faced as a result of that love." - Shelf
Awareness Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love,
family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy-written
with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours-about poor
children from the south sent to live with families in the north to
survive deprivation and the harsh winters. Though Mussolini and the
fascists have been defeated, the war has devastated Italy,
especially the south. Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother
Antonietta in Naples, surviving on odd jobs and his wits like the
rest of the poor in his neighborhood. But one day, Amerigo learns
that a train will take him away from the rubble-strewn streets of
the city to spend the winter with a family in the north, where he
will be safe and have warm clothes and food to eat. Together with
thousands of other southern children, Amerigo will cross the entire
peninsula to a new life. Through his curious, innocent eyes, we see
a nation rising from the ashes of war, reborn. As he comes to enjoy
his new surroundings and the possibilities for a better future,
Amerigo will make the heartbreaking choice to leave his mother and
become a member of his adoptive family. Amerigo's journey is a
moving story of memory, indelible bonds, artistry, and
self-exploration, and a soaring examination of what family can
truly mean. Ultimately Amerigo comes to understand that sometimes
we must give up everything, even a mother's love, to find our
destiny. Translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford
In this greatly anticipated revision and translation of Scienza e
Retorica, Marcello Pera argues that rhetoric is central to the
making of scientific knowledge. Pera begins with an attack on what
he calls the "Cartesian syndrome", the fixation on method shared by
supporters of both the "standard" and "new" philosophies of
science. He argues that in linking scientific rationality to
methodological rules, both sides get it wrong. Scientific knowledge
is neither the mirror of nature provided by a universal method, nor
a cultural construct imposed by subjective interests. Pera proposes
to overcome the tension between normative and descriptive
philosophies of science by focusing on rhetoric in the construction
and acceptance of theories. Examining the uses of argumentation in
Galileo's Dialogue, Darwin's Origin, and the big bang-steady state
controversy in cosmology, Pera shows that scientific research is
not just an interchange between nature and the observer. Rather,
science is a three-way interaction among nature, the investigator,
and a questioning community which, through the process of attack,
defense, and dispute, determines what science is. Rhetoric, then,
understood as the practice of scientific argumentation, is an
essential element in the constitution of science. As a powerful
alternative to dominant philosophies of science and a bold
reconsideration of rhetoric and dialectic more broadly, this book
addresses contemporary questions in philosophy, rhetoric, history
of science, literary criticism, and cognitive science.
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