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The Lying Life of Adults (La vita bugiarda degli adulti) by Elena Ferrante — book review
“L’amore è opaco come i vetri delle finestre dei cessi.” (I’m no Ann Goldstein but the above quote can be roughly translated to: “Love is as opaque as the windows of a shit-house”). In this latest novel by Elena Ferrante, La Vita Bugiarda degli Adulti (or The Lying Life of Adults in its English translation) […]
1990s, 20th century, 3 STARS, Adult, ALIENATION, ambiguous protagonist, Ann Goldstein, beauty, bilingual review, BOOK REVIEW, Booklr, CHILDHOOD, coming of age, elena ferrante, family, growing up, identity, Italian Author, Italy, La vita bugiarda degli adulti, LITERARY FICTION, Naples, psychological, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, read in Italian, SEXUALITY, teen angst, terrific prose, The Lying Life of Adults -
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg — book review
From the first page I was drawn by Natalia Ginzburg’s incredibly vivid prose. The title of this memoir encapsulates much of Ginzburg’s recollection of her family. She remembers in minute detail the way in which within her family certain words and phrases had a particular significance or meaning, one that is known only by a […]
1930S, 1940s, 1st pov, 20th century, 4.5 STARS, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CHILDHOOD, CLASSICS, family, Family Lexicon, fascism, female authors, growing up, HISTORICAL FICTION, Italian Author, Italian classics, Italy, Jewish, Lessico famigliare, MARRIAGE, MEMOIR, modern classics, Natalia Ginzburg, Nonfiction, politics, published in 1963, READ IN 2019, read in Italian, REVIEW, war, WWII -
Just Enough by Flavia Biondi — review
Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me with the chance to read this stunning work. Although I’m Italian, before coming across Just Enough on NetGalley, I’d never heard of Flavia Biondi. As soon as I saw her artwork I fell in love. I can best describe this as a ‘slice of life’ that depicts the […]
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L’Arminuta (A Girl Returned) by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
In spite of its short length Arminuta packs a real punch. I was almost hypnotised by its incredibly unsentimental narrative. Although Di Pietrantonio uses a seemingly direct and unadorned language, she’s able to brilliantly evoke the narrator’s world. However stark and unpleasant, everything was depicted in such a sharp and vivid way that I was entranced even […]
1970s, 1980s, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, Adult, ALIENATION, ambiguous protagonist, belonging, CHILDHOOD, cold tone, coming of age, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, family, growing up, identity, incest, introspective, Italian Author, Italy, L’Arminuta, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, MEMORY, mothers & daughters, Poverty, psychological, re-reads, READ IN 2019, read in 2020, read in 2022, read in Italian, REVIEWS, SISTERS, unnamed city, unnamed narrator
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