Farewell, ghosts : a novel / Nadia Terranova ; translated by Ann Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terranova, Nadia, author.

Contributor:

Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.

Standardized Title:

Addio fantasmi. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italy--Fiction.

Italy.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2020]

Language Note:

Translated into English from Italian.

Summary:

"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. The fierce silences between mother and daughter, the unbalanced friendships that leave her emotionally drained, the sense of an identity based on anomaly, even the relationship with her husband, everything revolves around the figure of her absent father. Mirroring herself in that absence, Ida has grown up into a woman dominated by fear, suspicious of any form of desire. However, as her childhood home besieges her with its ghosts, Ida will have to find a way to break the spiral and let go of her father finally. Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein, who also translated Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, Farewell, Ghosts is a poetic and intimate novel about what it means to build one's own identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Terranova, Nadia. Farewell, ghosts.

ISBN:

9781644210079

164421007X

9780995580732

0995580731

OCLC:

1130763561

Publisher Number:

99985481878