Domenico Starnone, trans. from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri. Europa, $16 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-60945-385-5
“In case it’s slipped your mind, Dear Sir, let me remind you: I am your wife.” Vanda writes this to her husband, Aldo, who hasn’t come home for six days. It’s Naples, 1974, and Aldo and Vanda married young, and now, when intellectuals have decided...
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Domenico Starnone, trans. from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri. Europa (PRH, dist.), $16 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-60945-444-9
Starnone’s astute and emotionally precise novel (after Ties) follows famed illustrator Daniele Mallarico as he returns to his childhood home in Naples at the request of his daughter, Betta. Daniele is reluctantly tasked with watching his four-year-ol
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Domenico Starnone, trans. from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri. Europa, $17 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-60945-703-7
Starnone (Trick) returns with an elegant story of a man’s lifelong struggle to perfect his public persona while hiding a secret. Pietro Vella, a self-important 30-something high school teacher, has a tempestuous affair with Teresa Quadraro, a former
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Domenico Starnone, trans. from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky. Europa, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-609459-23-9
Starnone (Trust) draws on his personal history in this nuanced saga of life as the child of an artist, originally published more than 20 years ago and now appearing in English for the first time. At the center are prickly memories of narrator Mimí’s
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Domenico Starnone, trans. from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky. Europa, $18 trade paper (144p) ISBN 979-8-88966-047-7
In this deeply affecting story of familial and romantic love, Starnone (Trust) illuminates a boy’s life in Naples. Seduced by the legend of Orpheus and his grandmother Nanni’s terrifying tales of the underworld, nine-year-old Mimi watches from his...
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