Can you hear me? Fiction Book
Can you hear me?: A viciously gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer
Author: Alex Valente Elena VarvelloPublisher: Two RoadsCategory: Fiction, ThrillersBook Format: Paperback'A BEAUTIFUL, STARK, POIGNANT ACCOUNT OF FEAR, LOVE AND LOSS' Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths (Bailey's Women Prize for Fiction 2017 Longlist)'A WORLD OF SUSPENSE A LA HITCHCOCK' Gaia Servadio | 'THE BEST ITALIAN NOVEL OF THE YEAR' Fabio Geda, author of In The Sea There Are Crocodiles | 'A BOOK TO GET LOST IN' Paolo Giordano, author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers | 'ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, INTENSE AND ORIGINAL BOOKS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN MY LIFE' Huffington Post Italy'I knew nothing, back then, of the ways in which love can show itself, of the force with which it can push us into a corner and take our breath away'1978. Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy: peaceful woods, discarded rubbish, a closed-down factory. An unbearably hot summer like many others, wilted flowers and trips to the waterfalls.Elia Furenti is sixteen, living in a secluded house with his parents, a life so unremarkable that even its moderate unhappiness has been accepted as normal. That is until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel.Elia's father, Ettore, is let go from his job and loses himself in the darkest corners of his mind, spending day after day plotting his revenge.A young boy is murdered, shaking the small community to its core.And a girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods...Translated from Italian by Alex Valente.
About Elena Varvello
ELENA VARVELLO was born in Turin, Italy, in 1971, and grew up in a small village in the woods not far from her birthplace. In 1996 she completed a Master Degree in Creative Writing at the Scuola Holden in Turin. Since 1999 she has been teaching Creative Writing at the same school. Elena has published two collections of poetry, Perseveranza e salutare and Atlanti, a collection of short stories, L'economia delle cose (nominated for the Premio Strega, the Italian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Settembrini Award and the Bagutta Opera Prima Award), and two novels, La luce perfetta del giorno and La vita felice, translated into English as Can you hear me?, published in UK (English PEN Award 2017), USA, France, Spain and Poland and soon to be published in Portugal and Greece. She still lives in that small village with her husband and their two sons. elenavarvello.com ALEX VALENTE is a half-Tuscan, half-Yorkshire, all European freelance teacher and translator. He is the co-editor of online publication The Norwich Radical, has a penchant for comics, poetry, and speculative fiction, and can be found on Twitter as @DrFumetts. ALEX VALENTE is a half-Tuscan, half-Yorkshire, all European freelance teacher and translator. He is the co-editor of online publication The Norwich Radical, has a penchant for comics, poetry, and speculative fiction, and can be found on Twitter as @DrFumetts.(BK-9781473654884)
| SKU | BK-9781473654884 |
| Barcode # | 9781473654884 |
| Brand | Two Roads |
| Artist / Author | Alex Valente Elena Varvello |
| Shipping Weight | 0.3000kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.180m |
| Shipping Height | 0.020m |
| Shipping Length | 0.220m |
| Assembled Length | 21.800m |
| Assembled Height | 2.000m |
| Assembled Width | 17.600m |
| Type | Paperback |
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