Farewell, ghosts : a novel

The Resource Farewell, ghosts : a novel

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Farewell, ghosts : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Nadia Terranova ; translated by Ann Goldstein

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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"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

853/.92

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated into English from Italian

LC call number

PQ4920.E767

LC item number

A6713 2020

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult

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