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.
In questo suo primo romanzo, Dacia Maraini racconta in modo spoglio, con sguardo fermo e oggettivo, la breve stagione di una ragazzina che vuole fare i conti con gli altri, subito e senza finzioni. Anna affronta l'amore - quello vissuto dai grandi - come un rapido incontro, molto silenzio e un grumo di pensieri nella testa, e usa il corpo denudato quasi fosse un velo ultimo ai segreti che si porta dentro.
Messina, 1977. Aurora, figlia del fascistissimo Silini, ha sin da piccola l'abitudine di rifugiarsi in bagno a studiare, per prendere tutti nove immaginando di emanciparsi dalla sua famiglia, che le sta stretta. Giovanni è sempre stato lo scavezzacollo dei Santatorre, ce l'ha con il padre e il suo «comunismo che odora di sconfitta», e vuole fare la rivoluzione. I due si incontrano all'università, e pochi mesi dopo aspettano già una bambina. La vita insieme però si rivela diversa da come l'avevano fantasticata. Perché la frustrazione e la paura del fallimento possono offendere anche il legame piú appassionato. Perché persino l'amore piú forte può essere tradito dalla Storia.
"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...
