Edith Bruck: Recounting the Holocaust Until She CanÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™t
Il Pane Perduto by Edith Bruck (La Nave di Teseo, 2021) Review by Jeanne Bonner When Edith Bruck was 12 years old, she was deported to Auschwitz, and was immediately separated from her mother in a brutal scene. In her new memoir, Bruck writes that later, after being yanked away, another prisoner who had been at the camp ...
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“La vita bugiarda degli adulti” by Elena Ferrante
La vita bugiarda degli adulti by Elena Ferrante 283 pgs. | pb | 9788833571683 | €19,00 edizioni e/o Review by Jeanne Bonner If all had gone as plannedÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”which is to say if a global pandemic hadnÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™t bulldozed our normal livesÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”this summer, you might have been reading Ann GoldsteinÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s English translation of La vita ...
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“Italian Short Stories” ed. by Jhumpa Lahiri
Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories ed. Jhumpa Lahiri Translated from the Italian by Various 528 pgs. | hc | 9780241299838 | $30.00 Penguin Random House Review by Jeanne Bonner Novels and memoirs often become labors of love for the authors who birth them. But what about an anthology? How often do we imagine ...
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“Quo Vadis, Baby?” by Grazia Verasani
 Quo Vadis, Baby? by Grazia Verasani Translated from the Italian by Taylor Corse and Juliann Vitullo 180 pgs. | pb | 9781599103662 | $15.00 Italica Press Review by Jeanne Bonner The last time I wrote about Grazia VerasaniÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s Quo Vadis, Baby? (Mondadori, 2007) I was researching an article for Literary Hub ...
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The Hatred of Music
Pascal QuignardÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s __The Hatred of Music_ is the densest, most arcane, most complex book IÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™ve read in ages. ItÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s also a book that covers a topic so basic, so universalÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”almost primordialÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”that just about any reader will be perversely thrilled by the intersections Quignard unearths between the mind and the world of ...
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