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Once We Are Safe
E poi saremo salvi
Alessandra Carati (born 1975)
Translated by Laura Masini, Linda Worrell
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Once We Are Safe
Amazon Crossing · United States · 2025 · 239 pages
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Aida is six when she and her mother flee their small Bosnian village by night, reaching the Italian border where her father waits. Together they settle in Milan, where Aida has to grow up suddenly and on her own, because exile has overturned her parents' lives too. Even the birth of her brother Ibro cannot put things back in order: the family's real life is always elsewhere, in a place the war has erased. Under the weight of nostalgia the family wears itself out, one consumed by anger, one crushed by secrets, one taken hostage by an elusive illness, and Aida realizes she must draw a new horizon for herself.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 271 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, War, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Bosnia & Herzegovina, Italy, 1990s onwards
- First published
- 2021 by Mondadori
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9788804737308 (original)
9781662534294 (Amazon Crossing, United States)