La novela m s hermosa de Natalia Ginzburg, seg n Italo Calvino, elogiada por Lydia Davis, Colm T ib n, Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson o Zaddie Smith: una historia inolvidable sobre la felicidad, el amor y la p rdida. «Cuando le por primera vez un libro de Natalia Ginzburg, hace muchos a os, me pareci que le a algo que hab a sido escrito para m , algo que hab a sido escrito casi dentro de mi propia cabeza o mi coraz n . -Sally Rooney, The Guardian Traducci n de Andr s Trapiello y pr logo de Colm T ib n En un pueblo cercano a Tur n, despu s de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, unas cuantas familias de la burgues a piamontesa luchan por salir del dominio del fascismo y cumplir el papel y las aspiraciones que les han sido asignados. La narradora, Elsa, tiene veintisiete a os y vive con sus padres. Mientras su solter a es un motivo de continua ansiedad para su madre, ella observa la asfixiante vida local: dos generaciones de vecinos y parientes con sus chismes, sue os rotos, desamores y ansias de felicidad. Extra amente ausente de estas historias familiares, Elsa aflora de repente de entre las sombras, para revelar un rostro desconocido para todos, incluido el propio lector. Una novela inolvidable, «llena de observaciones brillantes, arriesgadas y raudas --seg n escribe Colm T ib n en el pr logo a esta edici n--, por una de las voces m s importantes de la literatura italiana del siglo XX. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom one of Italy's greatest writers, 'An ingeniously created novel... Bathed in irony and ambiguity and filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation.' --Colm Toibin, from the introduction. In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern to her mother, whose status anxiety manifests itself in acute hypochondria. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family. The De Francisci's own the cloth factory that dominates the town, and Elsa knows the details of their lives as intimately as her own. In the course of their secret meetings, Elsa begins to imagine a future with Tommasino, free from the constraints of shared history and expectation. But all of this is threatened when their relationship is revealed. An elegant, spare novel reminiscent of Chekhov, Voices in the Evening is an unforgettable story about first love and lost chances, from one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.
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