Veronica Raimo
1) Lost on Me
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimo's native Italy, Lost on Me is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman from one of the most celebrated young writers working today.
Born into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country to be with him. A few months later, newly pregnant and just beginning to feel comfortable in her lover's space, her life is upended when a girl arrives at the door. Slight and pretty, the girl discloses a drawn out and violent affair she's had with her professor, the father of the woman's unborn child. In alternating perspectives,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sur
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Pochi scrittori hanno saputo aprire nuove riflessioni sulla contemporaneità partendo da premesse vertiginosamente fantastiche come quelle che troviamo nella narrativa di Octavia Butler. Perennemente sospese tra utopia e distopia, le sue storie ci obbligano a salti del pensiero in apparenza paradossali, ma ci riportano ogni volta alle radici concrete e umanissime del nostro stare nel mondo.Cosa accadrebbe in una società in cui la parola fosse scomparsa...