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A Silence Shared
A Silence Shared
paperback | English
Published:
19 January, 2023
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781782278207 |
| ISBN10 | 1782278206 |
| Number Of Pages | 192 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pushkin Press |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
“Thanks to this new translation… another unveiling of a great Italian writer is about to begin… Her writing fascinates because so much of it circles around how we construct and remember the lives we lead, those moments and elements that are mysterious and impossible to communicate.”
--Los Angeles Review of Books
“Her work deserves to be read alongside other titans of 20th-century Italian literature such as Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Pavese and Italo Calvino (all of whom knew and revered her)… Told with magnificent restraint, and without the tensions ever breaking the novel’s serene, crystalline structure, A Silence Shared is a wonderful taste of Romano’s work.”
--The Spectator
“When a book is praised by three of Italy’s greatest 20th-century writers – Giorgio Bassani, Italo Calvino and Natalia Ginzburg – you pay attention... through short scenes and spare dialogue, Romano successfully creates a mood of stasis, anticipation and guilt.”
--The Guardian
“Reading this beguiling book was not unlike watching light and shadow complicate the surface of a still, deep pool of summer water. Hats off to Brian Robert Moore for the stunning translation.”
--Sunjeev Sahota, Lithub
“Exquisite.”
--Irish Times
"Romano writes in a dreamlike present, which is to say the present that appears to us in dreams... clear and full of shadows, concrete and out of reach."
--Natalia Ginzburg
"A subtle and captivating story... An incredibly complex and tough knot of human ties, [explored] with a heightened sensitivity that never falters."
--Italo Calvino
Author's Bio
Lalla Romano (1906-2001) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and visual artist. Initially more active as a painter, from the 1940s Romano turned increasingly to writing, publishing her first poetry collection in 1941. During the Second World War she returned to her home province of Cuneo and became involved with the partisans. Her first novel, Maria, was published in 1953, and she went on to become one of Italy's most renowned writers, earning the Pavese Prize and the Strega Prize before her death at the age of 94. Her novel A Silence Shared, in Brian Robert Moore's translation, is also available from Pushkin Press. Brian Robert Moore has translated works by acclaimed Italian authors such as Michele Mari, Lalla Romano and Goliarda Sapienza. For his translations, he has received the O. Henry Prize and two PEN Translates Awards, among other honours. His translation of Lalla Romano's A Silence Shared was runner-up for the 2024 John Florio Prize and shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.