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Outrageously good . . . An unforgettable book -- OLIVIA LAING Aqua is a great American road-trip book as Lolita is a great American road-trip book. (Why are our best road-trip books written by non-Americans, I wonder?) What Barzini has accomplished here is nothing short of visionary. Nothing short of ecstasy, too. A remarkable work -- LILI ANOLIK An original and remarkable journey across a fading West and its unpredictable waters, filled with surprises, humour, and grit. Barzini does an impeccable job at drawing parallels between America's dying empire and the end of ancient Rome -- GAY TALESE Reverie and road-trip, Aqua succeeds in turning the Cadillac Desert and Land of Little Rain into something lush and unexpected . . . Chiara Barzini ducts and dives through a wonderful and revelatory journey -- GEOFF DYER From uncanny to metaphysical, the 'nature' of Los Angeles has become increasingly political. With her fluid narrative movements, Chiara Barzini evokes the infinite prophecies of a city -- CLAUDIA DURASTANTI A visionary, ultra-timely audit of big dreams and high costs. In Barzani's hands, the tale of the stolen water that let Los Angeles flourish becomes a wild parable about illusion and limitation, about what human desire has done to the planet and what it feels like to exist at the end of an empire -- OLIVIA LAING

Outrageously good ... An unforgettable book -- OLIVIA LAING A visionary, ultra-timely audit of big dreams and high costs. In Barzani's hands, the tale of the stolen water that let Los Angeles flourish becomes a wild parable about illusion and limitation, about what human desire has done to the planet and what it feels like to exist at the end of an empire -- OLIVIA LAING An original and remarkable journey across a fading West and its unpredictable waters, filled with surprises, humour, and grit. Barzini does an impeccable job at drawing parallels between America's dying empire and the end of ancient Rome -- GAY TALESE Reverie and road-trip, Aqua succeeds in turning the Cadillac Desert and Land of Little Rain into something lush and unexpected . . . Chiara Barzini ducts and dives through a wonderful and revelatory journey -- GEOFF DYER From uncanny to metaphysical, the 'nature' of Los Angeles has become increasingly political. With her fluid narrative movements, Chiara Barzini evokes the infinite prophecies of a city -- CLAUDIA DURASTANTI

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Chiara Barzini is an award-winning Italian screen and fiction writer. She lived and studied in the United States where she covered Lifestyle and Culture stories for numerous American and Italian publications. She writes and translates both in English and Italian and is the author of the short story collection Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012) and the novel Things That Happened Before The Earthquake (Doubleday, 2017) which was a Best Book of the Year for Vogue, Esquire, Elle, Bustle, and the Guardian, and a best summer book for the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, BBC, and Oprah! magazine. Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She has a regular column in D Repubblica and is a Literature Advisor at the American Academy in Rome. @chiarabarzini

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