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I'm Staying Here

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Marco Balzano (born 1978)

Translated by Jill Foulston

English editions

In English

• I'm Staying Here

  Other Press · United States · 1 December 2020 · 224 pages

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When war or flood comes, people run; not Trina. Stubborn like Curon, the small South Tyrolean village where she grew up, she stands up to the Fascists who ban the German language and stop her from teaching. She is not afraid to flee into the mountains with her deserter husband. She writes constantly to her daughter, who vanished without trace, hoping her words will bring her back. After the war, which brings no peace, the building of a dam threatens to flood the fields and houses of the valley, and Trina defends herself with the one thing no one can take from her: words.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

184 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy, 1920s–1950s

First published

2018 by Einaudi

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9788806243692 (original)

9781635420371 (Other Press, United States)

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