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- ISBN 9781978841338
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Giuliana Striano is forty years old and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of Italian emigrants with a daughter of her own, Renata, now five years old. Upon the death of her mother, Giuliana learns that she had been adopted and given a new identity with a different name and a different date and place of birth. So Giuliana determines to find out who she really is, what is hidden in her past, and who her birth parents were.
Her Name That Day the story of "another" Italy set in a region that only recently became Italian and whose characters are Croatian, Slovenian, Australian, and South African, as well as Italians, precariously perched in a border community filled with secrets and scores to settle with History. Against this backdrop, the narrator endeavors to save a woman encountered by chance on the internet from becoming still another name without a history, another deracinated and disenchanted individual. In prose that is precise and engaging, as though shot through by a sense of pain both silent and inescapable, Pietro Spirito gives shape to an existential thriller in which there are neither guilty parties nor heroes, only victims and survivors.
Pietro Spirito is a journalist based in Trieste, Italy, where he is cultural editor for the city's leading newspaper, Il Piccolo. He is the author of twenty-two novels, short story collections, and other book-length volumes, and of five film scripts. Her Name That Day is the first of his works to be published in English.
Melinda Nelson is an assistant vice provost at The Ohio State University. She, with Charles Klopp, has translated three Italian novels.
Charles Klopp is Professor Emeritus of Italian at The Ohio State University. He has authored, edited, or translated eight books in English and Italian as well as many articles, encyclopedia entries, and reviews.
Pamela Ballinger holds the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan. She is the award-winning author of History in Exile and The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy.
