Description: Written as a novel within a novel, a meta-fiction of exchange between the two characters' points of view, this book is direct, humorous and full of surprises. In the drama of its protagonists, it captures modern marriage as well as an entire microcosm of modern Rome, a world that is deceptively calm and only apparently in order.
Brief description: Miriam Aloisio currently teaches Spanish at the University of Colorado Boulder. After finishing her BA in Interpretation and Translation of English and German from the University of Milan, Aloisio earned an MA in Italian Studies from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on environmental commitment in Luigi Malerba's writing. Her areas of research and teaching include the twentieth- and twenty-first-century novel with a particular focus on postmodern novels, cinematic adaptation, the avant-garde, culture and language. She has collaborated on translations of several literary texts, and she has published and presented on the work of Alessandro Manzoni, Italo Svevo, Elsa Morante, Giorgio Manganelli, Italo Calvino and Luigi Malerba, among others.
Review Quotes:
"To enter [Malerba's world] in this fine translation is to discover just how engaging an author Luigi Malerba is." Rebecca West, University of Chicago