Uma história vívida e detalhada sobre amor e perda em tempos de guerra Em uma madrugada cinzenta de 1943, Chiara Ravello caminha pelos arredores do bairro judeu de Roma quando vê um grupo de pessoas sendo obrigado a embarcar em caminhões. Uma judia chama sua atenção e diz para o filho de sete anos acompanhar Chiara. Fingindo que o garoto é seu sobrinho, Chiara, que havia abandonado a ideia de ser mãe, salva o menino, Daniele, da morte certa e tem a chance de criá-lo como se fosse seu próprio filho. Décadas mais tarde, Chiara ainda se vê assombrada pelo fantasma de Daniele, cujo comportamento e cujas escolhas constantemente a fazem questionar a decisão tomada em 1943. Quando o telefone toca e uma adolescente afirma ser filha do garoto, Chiara sabe que chegou a hora de enfrentar o passado.
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Virginia Baily
Bertrand Brasil
2017
350 páginas
11h 40m
ISBN-13: 9788528621822
Português Brasileiro
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Virginia Baily
Virginia Baily is an award-winning author whose stories and poetry have been widely anthologized. She was born in Yorkshire but moved to Cardiff at the age of seven. She received a BA in French and Italian from the University of Exeter and has lived mostly in Devon since that time, garnering in the interim an MA and PhD in English, also from Exeter University. Her first novel, Africa Junction, published by Harvill Secker, was inspired both by her work as editor of the political series of the Africa Research Bulletin and by her travels in West Africa. It won the Society of Authors’ McKitterick prize in 2012 and she used the prize money to travel to Italy, rent an apartment in Rome and concentrate on writing and researching her second novel. Early One Morning, published in 2015 in the UK by Virago and in the US / Canada by Little, Brown, is being translated into German, Italian, French, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian and Portuguese. It was Waterstones and Goldsboro’s book of the month in August when it was also a Sunday Times Bestseller. A BBC Radio 4 adaptation was broadcast in October 2015. She founded and co-edits Riptide short story journal, now on its eleventh volume. She has worked as a language teacher, translator and editor and continues to edit both Africa Research and Riptide. She sets her narratives against a backdrop of historical events. Recurring themes are identity, kinship and otherness. She writes standing up in a corner of her office, facing a blank wall. She is currently working on novel number three where the worlds of her beloved Italy and North Africa collide.
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