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Voices in the Evening [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 144 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 206x132x10 mm, weight: 145 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-May-2021
  • Leidėjas: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN-10: 0811231003
  • ISBN-13: 9780811231008
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 144 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 206x132x10 mm, weight: 145 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-May-2021
  • Leidėjas: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN-10: 0811231003
  • ISBN-13: 9780811231008
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"In a quiet Italian town after World War Two, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is a constant concern to her obsessive, hypochondriac mother. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family, who own the textile factory that dominates the town. Over the course of their secret meetings, Elsa begins to imagine a future with Tommasino, free from the constraints of expectations and burdensome history. But this is all threatened by exposure. An elegant and beautifully re-strained novel that scratches at the fragility of postwar consciousness, Voices in the Evening is an unforgettable story about first love and lost chances"--

After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”

Recenzijos

"The concepts, emotions and characters in her books are complex and unforgettable." -- Laurie Anderson - New York Times "Sharp and lively." -- Lydia Davis "Im utterly entranced by Ginzburgs style her mysterious directness, her salutary ability to lay things bare that never feels contrived or cold, only necessary, honest, clear." -- Maggie Nelson "Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like." -- Rachel Cusk "Her sentences have great precision and clarity, and I learn a lot when I read her." -- Zadie Smith "As deceptively diffuse as it is meticulously observed, Ginzburgs novel is a gem." -- Kirkus (starred) "Ginzburgs efficient, lyrical prose and ear for dialogue make for an expansive and beautifully rendered study of individuals and community in wartime. With this latest resurrected masterpiece, the late authors work continues to prove irresistible and relevant." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "Though the political context is important in understanding the nuances of her work, Ginzburgs talent, and how fresh these stories still feel, is in her note-perfect characterizations. The many political frictions offer a context, but its these imaginary/real people who are front and center." -- Mandana Chaffa - Chicago Review of Books "There is perhaps no greater archivist of the family lexicon than the Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg." -- Jess Bergman - Jewish Currents "Ginzburg is a miniaturist. Her themes are buried in gestures, fragments, absencesnot in what is said, but in what is not said....When there are glimpses of happiness in Ginzburgs work, they take root in unlikely places, outside the narrow confines of convention. Voices in the Evening, set in the period immediately after the war, is a portrait of the children of a factory boss as told by Elsa, the factory accountants daughter, a typically opaque Ginzburgian narrator. Elsa is having a covert love affair with Tommasino, the youngest of the bosss children, and the pair meet every Wednesday in a modest rented room. Ginzburg sketches the parameters of their relationship with typical precision, through an accretion of specifics that accumulate incredible force, humor, and beauty." -- Negar Azimi - Bookforum

Natalia Ginzburg (19161991), who authored twelve books and two plays; who, because of anti-Semitic laws, sometimes couldnt publish under her own name; who raised five children and lost her husband to Fascist torture; who was elected to the Italian parliament as an independent in her late sixtiesthis woman does not take her present conditions as a given. She asks us to fight back against them, to be brave and resolute. She instructs us to ask for better, for ourselves and for our children (Belle Boggs, The New Yorker). D. M. Low (1890-1972) was a British translator of Italian literature and biographer of Edward Gibbon. Colm Tóibķn is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman professor of the humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.