Elena Varvello, Elena Varvello

Can you hear me? (eBook, ePUB)

A viciously gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer
Übersetzer: Valente, Alex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian
'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent
'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel' The Times
'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end' Victoria Hislop

In the August of 1978, the summer I met Anna Trabuio, my father took a girl into the woods...
I was sixteen.
He had been gone a long time already, but that was it - not even a year after he lost his job and that boy disappeared - that was when everything broke.

1978.
Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy. An unbearably hot summer like many others. Elia Furenti is sixteen, living an unremarkable life of moderate unhappiness, until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood.

But then everything starts to unravel.

Elia's father, Ettore, is let go from his job and loses himself in the darkest corners of his mind. A young boy is murdered. And a girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods...

THE TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE TA FIRST TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473654907
• Artikelnr.: 48568211

Autorenporträt

ELENA VARVELLO was born in Turin, Italy, in 1971. She has published two collections of poetry, Perseveranza è salutare and Atlanti, a collection of short stories, L'economia delle cose (nominated for the Premio Strega, the Italian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize), and two novels, La luce perfetta del giorno and La vita felice, now translated into English as Can you hear me? (English PEN Award 2017).
She teaches creative writing at the Scuola Holden in Turin.
elenavarvello.com

ALEX VALENTE is a European half-Yorkshire, half-Tuscan freelance translator.
He has researched comics, poetry, and their translation, co-edits The Norwich Radical, regularly translates for Italian literary agencies, and does voluntary work for non-profit organisations.
He's on Twitter as @DrFumetts.

Rezensionen

Can You Hear Me? poignantly touches on problems of friendships, families and coming of age in a small community in northern Italy. There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel. Marcel Berlins, The Times