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 · In her first U.S.-published work, Di Pietrantonio (My Mother Is a River) tells the spellbinding story of a girl whose life is upended by a shift in her family. In August of , the unnamed year-old narrator is dropped off at the apartment of her birth family in a nameless Italian town by the man that she believed to be her father but who is, in fact, only a distant cousin of her biological www.doorway.ru: Europa Editions, Incorporated. Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy’s most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned is a powerful novel rendered with sensitivity and verve by Ann Goldstein, translator of the works of Elena Ferrante. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, /5().  · Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Ann Goldstein (Translator) · Rating details · 10, ratings · 1, reviews. Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy’s most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of /5.


A reminder that you can buy a copy of A Girl Returned from Daunt here and get 10% off if you use the code WBC at checkout. And look out for a new book by Donatella Di Pietrantonia, A Sister's Story, which spends more time with our two sisters, published next Spring - more info on the publisher's website here. For most of the novel Ms Di Pietrantonio keeps both her protagonist and her readers in the dark. All their questions are answered by way of shock truths in the final act, in which the girl and her mamma are brought together for a powerful showdown. Expertly translated by Ann Goldstein, A Girl Returned is as heart-warming as it is heart-rending. A Girl Returned Donatella Di Pietrantonio, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Europa, $16 trade paper (p) ISBN Buy this book In her first U.S.


Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Ann Goldstein (Translator) · Rating details · 10, ratings · 1, reviews. Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy’s most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about re. What did Emily and her walking book club think of this beautiful, poetic Italian novella? We discuss a complex portrait of the Italy you don’t find in the gu. The impact is felt everywhere from the bank to the bedroom, and none of these tensions escape the still-young Italian novelist Donatella Di Pietrantonio. Her debut in English, “A Girl Returned.

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