This award-winning novel about a woman facing her past introduces Terranova to English-speaking audiences. Translated by Ann Goldstein, translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet. Finalist, Premio Strega, 2019 | Winner, Premio Alassio Centolibri | Selected among the 10 Best Italian Books of 2018 by Corriere della Sera Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Rome and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things--to decide what to keep and what to throw away. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to return. The fierce silences between mother and daughter, the unbalanced friendships that leave her emotionally drained, the sense of an identity based on anomaly, even the relationship with her husband, everything revolves around the figure of her absent father. Mirroring herself in that absence, Ida has grown up into a woman dominated by fear, suspicious of any form of desire. However, as her childhood home besieges her with its ghosts, Ida will have to find a way to break the spiral and let go of her father finally. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein, who also translated Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, Farewell, Ghosts is a poetic and intimate novel about what it means to build one's own identity.

Farewell, Ghosts

Literature & Fiction

Terranova, Nadia

Literary

Seven Stories Press

Two stories converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria: a young woman sees a chance to avoid her impending arranged marriage and a boy manages to escape from the influence of an abusive mother on the verge of madness. This new award-winning novel is from Nadia Terranova, author of Farewell Ghosts, a finalist for the 2019 Premio Strega, and is translated by Ann Goldstein, who also was the translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet. "There is something stronger than pain, and that is habit." Eleven-year-old Nicola knows this well. Each night he is tied up in the cellar by his mother, the wife of Calabria's biggest bergamot producer. There he waits for the sun to rise, and with it a sliver of freedom. On the other side of the sea, Barbara has just arrived in Messina and plans to escape her father, who pulls her towards marriage with a man she does not love. Liberty will be granted to both, but it will come at a very high price.&nbsp; On December 28th, 1908, the earth shakes. Europe's most devastating earthquake razes the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria and, along with them, everything Nicola and Barbara have known. From the ruins, each must piece back together a life and start anew. Written in Nadia Terranova's distinctively lyric style, The Night Trembles is a melancholic ode to human resilience and the promise of the unknown.

The Night Trembles: A Novel

Dramas & Plays

Adeu fantasmes

Genre Fiction

L'Altra Narrativa

essina, 1977. Aurora, figlia del fascistissimo Silini, ha sin da piccola l'abitudine di rifugiarsi in bagno a studiare, per prendere tutti nove immaginando di emanciparsi dalla sua famiglia, che le sta stretta. Giovanni è sempre stato lo scavezzacollo dei Santatorre, ce l'ha con il padre e il suo "comunismo che odora di sconfitta", e vuole fare la rivoluzione. I due si incontrano all'università, e pochi mesi dopo aspettano già una bambina. La vita insieme però si rivela diversa da come l'avevano fantasticata. Perché la frustrazione e la paura del fallimento possono offendere anche il legame più appassionato. Perché persino l'amore più forte può essere tradito dalla Storia.

GLI ANNI AL CONTRARIO (Italian Edition)

Contemporary

Mondadori

Addio fantasmi (Italian Edition)

Einaudi

Omero e stato qui (Italian Edition)

Bompiani

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