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Category Archives: Books set in Italy
Women in Translation Month 2023
It’s the last day of August and Women in Translation Month, like the summer, is drawing to a close. Inevitably, I’m casting my mind back over this month’s reading and wondering what it’s all been about: what did I choose … Continue reading
The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro by Viola Ardone, translated by Clarissa Botsford.
A girl is a jug: you break her, you take her. This opening phrase tells us so much about this moving novel, set in rural Sicily in 1961 and based on real historical events. It’s the story of Oliva Denaro, … Continue reading
Rombo by Esther Kinsky translated by Caroline Schmidt.
A recent trip to Italy set me thinking again about Esther Kinsky’s work, and particularly her novel Grove, a triptych of a book dealing with death and loss, set in Italy. I was aware her next novel, Rombo, was also … Continue reading
Posted in Books in German, Books in Translation, Books set in Italy, Nature Writing
Tagged Caroline Schmidt, Esther Kinsky, Fitzcarraldo, Rombo, Suhrkamp
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Natalia Ginzburg- Happiness, as Such and All our Yesterdays.
I’m so pleased to have discovered Natalia Ginzburg on a recent trip to Italy. I started with Happiness, as Such, then read All Our Yesterdays, and in both enjoyed the way Natalia Ginzburg knits the comedy and tragedy of everyday … Continue reading
Hain- Grove- by Esther Kinsky
Esther Kinsky’s most recent book, Hain, is part memoir, part nature and travel writing, but it is also a meditation on death. The three sections of the book each describe journeys made in different parts of Italy when the writer … Continue reading
Posted in Books in German, Books set in Italy, Nature Writing, Uncategorized
Tagged Esther Kinsky, Hain, Nature Writing
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