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Italian far-left
Natalia Ginzburg
Neapolitan novels
novels about grief
novels about losing a parent
Rachel Kushner
The Flamethrowers
The Little Virtues
the years of lead
Turin in literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781788168557
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 142 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'A very powerful and moving book' Margaret Drabble
'What an extraordinary voice! I was captivated from the first page and I know Marta's unique voice will stay with me for a long time. Bravissima!' Tomasz Jedrowski, author of Swimming in the Dark
Newly-bereaved, bookish and lonely in Turin, a young woman sets out to chronicle her father's secret lives - and her struggle to accept his loss. She is startled to discover that the gentle, mercurial doctor was sentenced to jail in 1986 for membership of an armed band. Her father, L.B., lived through the Years of Lead, a time of unrest when extreme factions of left and right took hostages, set bombs and murdered their countrymen.
Unable to move on before she can understand her family's past, she goes in search of him - and ultimately of herself too - the only way she knows how, by reading everything she can ... Through her search for the truth, a very different picture starts to emerge.
Marta Barone Marta Barone was born in Turin in 1987. She is a translator and a freelance editor. Her novel Sunken City, translated into six languages, has been shortlisted for the Strega Prize and won the Vittorini and Fiesole Prizes. She is also the author of several children's books.
Julia MacGibbon has previously translated non-fiction and poetry. Sunken City is her first translation of a novel. She lives near Rome.
