Nadia Terranova writes with a keen sense of inner emotional landscapes and complex interpersonal dynamics. Her works delve into the depths of the human psyche, exploring themes of identity, memory, and the search for meaning. Terranova is characterized by her refined stylistic sensibility and her ability to draw readers into compelling narratives that resonate long after the final page. Her prose style is both poetic and piercing.
Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Milan and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things - to decide what to keep and what to throw away. Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to return.
Set against the backdrop of the 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria, the narrative intertwines the lives of a young woman seeking freedom from an arranged marriage and a boy escaping an abusive, unstable mother. Their journeys of resilience and self-discovery unfold amidst the chaos and destruction, highlighting themes of survival and the quest for autonomy in a tumultuous world.
Anna e Giovanni, lei adolescente taciturna e attonita, lui più piccolo e fragile, escono dal collegio di suore per trascorrere una vacanza in famiglia, nel paese sul mare dove vivono il padre e la matrigna. È un'estate speciale: quella del 1943. L'Italia, fascista ancora per poco, è sospesa tra due guerre e divisa. Si fa largo un pesante malessere, nonostante l'indolenza dei giorni estivi e l'ottimismo spavaldo di chi vuol credere a tutti i costi in una vittoria sempre piú lontana. Il sole che brucia la pelle, le gite in pattino, l'appuntamento quotidiano ai bagni Savoia dove Anna comincia a guardare il mondo e a farsi guardare: il rombo degli aerei che passano per bombardare chissà dove è una breve parentesi che intacca appena la tranquilla cerimonia estiva. Ma basta poco perche Anna decida di diventare adulta:
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"She was too restless to work or write. She thought of Richard, of her unmanageable desires and her unabateable ambitions...My life is in pieces, I am nothing, I have achieved nothing; yet I will, she thought." In the month of the 1918 Armistice a young woman, Hervey Russell, comes to London to seek her fortune. Inexperienced an poor, she has all the dreams of youth. Hervey is alone, her husband in the Air Force still, her baby son in Yorkshire. She plunges into the social and political ferment of London life with her friends T.S. and Philip, her slovenly neighbour Delia, and her lover, the American Jess Gage. This is the beginning of Hervey' story...