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Settanta Acrilico Trenta Lana (2011)

by Viola Di Grado(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8876419470 (ISBN13: 9788876419478)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

e/o

review 1: Magical realism Italian style. This was a quick, but extremely intense, book. The author's fascination with translation, altering clothing, and the power of words and symbols, are beautifully conveyed. The book is unpredictable and pulls you along in its wake. There seem to be so many directions it could take. The protagonist is in an unbelievably bad situation that is somehow rendered believable, and many times, she seems close to escape. The chilling end seems right out of Faulkner, but I was also reminded of Jamaica Kincaid's stories about mother-daughter relationships.
review 2: I do not recommend reading a book about the many facets of depression (a cold and dark December that never ends) during the winter. I always struggle with translations and whether i... moret is truly the authors lush descriptions or the translators choice. The story was pretty good but the struggle with the narrators depression, her mothers depression and the depressing locale of Leeds was a bit much at times. I'm gonna go take some thyroid meds and some Vitamin D. less

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