Arturo's Island : A Novel (9781631496622)

Elsa Morante's novels were once considered the greatest of Italy's postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldstein's "deft translation" (Madeline Schwartz, New York Review of Books) of Arturo's Island heralds a "second life" for the beloved author, finally garnering Morante "the new readers she deserves" (Lily Tuck, Wall Street Journal). Imbued with a spectral grace, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where-his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion-he roams the countryside or reads in his family's lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering boyhood existence is existentially upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen- year- old bride, Nunziatella. A novel of thwarted desires, written with "the power of malediction" (Dwight Garner, New York Times), Arturo's Island reemerges to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 384 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 211 x 25mm | 293g
• Publication date 18 Feb 2020
• Publisher WW Norton & Co
• Imprint Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 163149662X
• ISBN13 9781631496622

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