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Quello che so di te
“What I Know About You” (title translated by AI)
Nadia Terranova (born 1978)
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Holding her newborn daughter, a woman has one certainty: from now on she can never allow herself to go mad. Madness in her family has a name, Venera, the great-grandmother who has always had a special place in her dreams. Who was Venera, and what led her one March day through the gates of the Mandalari, the asylum of Messina? To find out, the narrator must question the family mythology, which may lie or be mistaken and transfigures every episode. Moving back and forth between past and present, through Messina wounded by war and earthquake, the story sets two experiences of motherhood side by side, and tells of fathers too.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 261 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2025 by Guanda
- Author's age
- 47 when first published
- ISBN
9788823535084 (original)