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Lost on Me
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Veronica Raimo (born 1978)
Translated by Leah Janeczko
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Lost on Me
Black Cat · United States · 27 June 2023 · 224 pages
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At the beginning there is the family: an Italian family like many, in a flat where new walls and rooms keep appearing where there is no space for even a piece of furniture. With a funny, caustic, disenchanted voice she tells of sex, attachments, losses and growing up, and of how she became a writer, someone who, she says, comes to a bad end trying to kill off mothers, fathers and brothers only to find them stubbornly alive. Taking apart every comforting rhetoric of family life, she draws the portrait of a young woman of today who heals her wounds by laughing at them.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 163 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2022 by Einaudi
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9788806251895 (original)
9780802162045 (Black Cat, United States)