WINNER OF THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ( Washington Post ・
Kirkus Reviews ・
Dallas Morning News ) A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante\'s translator.
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..
Thus begins a new life, one of struggle, tension, and conflict, especially between the young Girl and her mother.
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.
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.
Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy\'s most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned is a powerful novel rendered with sensitivity and verve by Ann Goldstein, translator of the works of Elena Ferrante.
It is not mine in the way one might have good health, a safe place, certainty.
And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is.
The word \'mama\' stuck in my throat like a toad.
I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to.
I was the Arminuta , the Girl returned.
WINNER OF THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ( Washington Post ・
Kirkus Reviews ・
Dallas Morning News ) A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante\'s translator
