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The Lake's Water Is Never Sweet
L’acqua del lago non è mai dolce
Giulia Caminito (born 1988)
Translated by Hope Campbell Gustafson
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The Lake's Water Is Never Sweet
Spiegel & Grau · United States · 2025
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The Bitter Water of the Lake
The Indigo Press · United Kingdom · 2025 · 320 pages
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Fleeing the indifference of Rome, Antonia, a strong-willed mother with a disabled husband and four children, brings her proletarian family to the shores of Lake Bracciano, to the town of Anguillara Sabazia, where council housing, villas and warehouses grow together in disorder. Her daughter Gaia tells the story: a sharp, shy girl who sees through every social convention, but whose clumsy adolescence, shame and stifled anger slowly turn into violence. Between her mother's stubborn hope of keeping the family afloat and her own sense of defeat, she grows up in a place that promises much and keeps little.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 297 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2021 by Bompiani
- Author's age
- 33 when first published
- ISBN
9788830103245 (original)
9781954118669 (Spiegel & Grau, United States)
9781917378260 (The Indigo Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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