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Farewell, Ghosts

Addio fantasmi

Nadia Terranova (born 1978)

Translated by Ann Goldstein

English editions

In English

• Farewell, Ghosts

  Seven Stories Press · United States · 2020 · 224 pages

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Ida lands in Messina, her home town, called back by her mother, who wants to renovate the family flat and sell it. Surrounded again by the objects of her childhood, forced to choose what to keep and what to throw away, she has to face the trauma that marked her as a girl: twenty-three years ago her father disappeared. His body was never found, and there can be no funeral for a dead man who may not be dead. In the house between two seas, the place of return, Ida goes back over her own story to free herself from his absence, and from the ghost of a father who is no longer there.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

202 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy

First published

2018 by Einaudi

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9788806237455 (original)

9781644210079 (Seven Stories Press, United States)

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