Marosia Castaldi

The Hunger of Women (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leaping from recipe to recipe, this unique, poetic Italian novel charts a middle-aged woman's belated embrace of the sensual—opening a restaurant and loving other women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913505875
• Artikelnr.: 69133503

Autorenporträt

Marosia Castaldi, born in 1951, was a Neapolitan writer and artist who spent most of her life in Milan, where she died in 2019. Her degree, from the University of Naples, was in philosophy, and after moving to Milan in 1971, she studied art at the Brera Academy. She exhibited work in galleries across Europe and in the US and taught creative writing seminars at the Scuola Holden in Turin and Lalineascritta in Naples. Her extraordinary and experimental literary oeuvre includes the short story collections Abbastanza prossimo (1986), Casa idiota (1990), Piccoli paesaggi (1993), the prose collection In mare aperto (2001), the theatrical text Calco (2008), and the novels Fermata km 501 (1997), Per quante vite (1999), Che chiamiamo anima (2002), Dava fine alla tremenda notte (2004), Il dio dei corpi (2006), and the monumental Dentro le mie mani le tue. Tetralogia di Nightwater (2007). The Hunger of Women, her first book to appear in English, was nominated for the Strega Prize in 2012. Jamie Richards is an American translator of Italian literature. She has translated books by Viola di Grado, Roberto Saviano, Igiaba Scego, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Manuele Fior, and others. A 2021 NEA fellow, her work has appeared in numerous periodicals online and in print. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon.