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ISBN-10: 163149662X
ISBN-13: 9781631496622
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 02/18/2020
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.10" H

Arturo’s Island

Translator: Ann Goldstein

Paperback

Price: $18.95

Overview

Elsa Morante’s novels were once considered the greatest of Italy’s postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldstein’s “deft translation” (Madeline Schwartz, New York Review of Books) of Arturo’s Island heralds a “second life” for the beloved author, finally garnering Morante “the new readers she deserves” (Lily Tuck, Wall Street Journal). Imbued with a spectral grace, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where–his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion–he roams the countryside or reads in his family’s lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering boyhood existence is existentially upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen- year- old bride, Nunziatella. A novel of thwarted desires, written with “the power of malediction” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), Arturo’s Island reemerges to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.

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In this translation of Morante's arresting, febrile tale of abjection and adoration, originally published in 1957, Goldstein captures the blustery voice of an adolescent boy on Procida.... Morante's style is well-suited to the adolescent narrator who, marooned on an island, experiences particularly intense bouts of enchantment and disillusionment, making for a captivating novel.
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ISBN-10: 163149662X
ISBN-13: 9781631496622
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 02/18/2020
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.10" H
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