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A Sister's Story

Borgo Sud

Donatella Di Pietrantonio (born 1962)

Translated by Ann Goldstein

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In English

• A Sister's Story

  Europa Editions · United States · 2022 · Paperback · 176 pages

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  Europa Editions · United Kingdom · 2022 · Paperback · 176 pages

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Adriana always bursts into her sister's life like a gust of wind. As girls they were rebellious and close, daughters of no mother; now they are women full of impulses and mistakes, with an inheritance of unspoken words and intermittent attention. Each lives a great love, sacred and a little crooked, the irreparable kind found when young. One night the narrator, who has made a life far away, sets out on a long journey to reach Adriana in Borgo Sud, a fishing quarter, and on the way she revisits their past, their reluctant mother and the difficulty of opening one's heart without the language of affection.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

160 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy

First published

2020 by Einaudi

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9788806244781 (original)

9781609457471 (Europa Editions, United States)

9781787703490 (Europa Editions, United Kingdom)

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