Name: The Round Dance
SKU: 56751175
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Author: Abate, Carmine ; La Luna, Michelangelo ; Altimari, Francesco
ISBN: 9781978837447

Type

Physical Book

Author

Carmine Abate

Translated by

Michelangelo La Luna

Preface by

Francesco Altimari

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Language

English

Pages

254

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781978837447

Synopsis "The Round Dance"

The village of Hora is a magical place that blurs the boundaries between a mythical past and the present. It is here that Costantino Avati grows alongside his impetuous and melancholic father, Francesco; his mother, Elena, who hides a secret torment; his two sisters, Orlandina and Lucrezia; and his grandfather Lissandro, the last custodian of an era and a world that are disappearing. As Costantino feels the pangs of first love with the intriguing Roman Isabella, he also discovers the romantic allure of his own village and its rich cultural heritage. In his first novel, acclaimed author Carmine Abate transforms his Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) hometown of Carfizzi, Calabria, into a magical realist wonderland that rivals Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo. Inspired by the oral traditions of the old Albanian bards and incorporating the poetic local dialect, The Round Dance is a unique piece of multicultural literature that was named by the publishing house Mondadori as one of the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.

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