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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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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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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?
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