Voices In The Evening - Softcover

Ginzburg, Natalia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911547313 ISBN 13: 9781911547310

Verlag: Daunt Books, 2019

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Críticas:

'Like Chekhov, she knows how to stand back and let her characters expose their own lives, their frailties and strengths, their illusions and private griefs. The result is nearly translucent writing writing so clear, so direct, so seemingly simple that it gives the reader the magical sense of apprehending the world for the first time.' --New York Times

'Few writers of recent decades can paint characters with such striking economy, one thinks of Ernest Hemingway as a comparable writer' -- RTE

'Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like.' --Rachel Cusk, author of Outline

'I'm utterly entranced by Ginzburg s style her mysterious directness, her salutary ability to lay things bare that never feels contrived or cold, only necessary, honest, clear.' --Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

Reseña del editor:

'An ingeniously created novel... Bathed in irony and ambiguity and filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation.' Colm Toibin, from the introduction

In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern to her mother, whose status anxiety manifests itself in acute hypochondria. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family. The De Franciscis own the cloth factory that dominates the town and Elsa knows the details of their lives as intimately as her own.

In the course of their secret meetings, Elsa begins to imagine a future with Tommasino, free from the constraints of shared history and expectation. But all of this is threatened when their relationship is revealed.

An elegant, spare novel reminiscent of Chekhov, Voices in the Evening is an unforgettable story about first love and lost chances, from one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.

'A profound commentary on Italian life.' Tim Parks, London Review of Books

'Sharp and lively.' Lydia Davis

'Ginzburg's beautiful words have such solidity and simplicity. I read her with joy and amazement.' Tessa Hadley

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• Verlag: Daunt Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1911547313
• ISBN 13: 9781911547310
• Einband: Tapa blanda