A Girl Returned By Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Winner of the Campiello Prize._x000D_

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A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator._x000D_

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“I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The word ‘mama’ stuck in my throat like a toad. And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is. It is not mine in the way one might have good health, a safe place, certainty.”_x000D_

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Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy’s most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving._x000D_

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Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with h