A girl returned / Donatella Di Pietrantonio ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Language: English Original language: Italian Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2019.Description: 170 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781609455286
- Arminuta. English
- 853.92 23
- PQ4904.I2167 A89613 2019
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | DIP | Available | 069875 |
Originally published in Italian as "L'Arminuta". Torino : Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., 2017.
Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of individuals whom she has never met and who seem anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new life, one of struggle, tension, and conflict, especially between the young girl and her mother. But in her relationship with Adriana and Vincenzo, two of her newly acquired siblings, she will find the strength to start again and to build a new and enduring sense of self.
Translated from the Italian.