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It's like a rural version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan saga . It's a powerful and atmospheric record of largely unexplored terrain.' Margaret Drabble's Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement Beautifully and sympathetically evoking the intense world of working-class Turin, this story is a pleasure to read. The Catholic Herald A warm and direct story, memorable for its vivid description and depth of cultural understanding. Thomas Tallon in The Tablet It's like a rural version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan saga . It's a powerful and atmospheric record of largely unexplored terrain. -- Margaret Drabble's Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement It's like a rural version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan saga, a powerful and atmospheric record of largely unexplored terrain. --Margaret Drabble

It's like a rural version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan saga . It's a powerful and atmospheric record of largely unexplored terrain.' Margaret Drabble's Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement Beautifully and sympathetically evoking the intense world of working-class Turin, this story is a pleasure to read. The Catholic Herald A warm and direct story, memorable for its vivid description and depth of cultural understanding. Thomas Tallon in The Tablet It's like a rural version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan saga . It's a powerful and atmospheric record of largely unexplored terrain. -- Margaret Drabble's Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement

It's like a rural version of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan saga . It's a powerful and atmospheric record of largely unexplored terrain.' Margaret Drabble's Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement Beautifully and sympathetically evoking the intense world of working-class Turin, this story is a pleasure to read. The Catholic Herald A warm and direct story, memorable for its vivid description and depth of cultural understanding. Thomas Tallon in The Tablet

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Margherita Giacobino, born in 1952, lives in Turin. She is a writer, journalist, academic and translator . She translated - among others - Emily Bronte, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde. She made her debut in 1993 with the novel Un' Americana a Parigi written under the pseudonym of Elinor Rigby. !n 1996 she published Casalinghe All'Inferno, in 2007 L'Educazione Sentimentale Di C.B. and in 2010 L'Uovo Fuori Dal Cavagno. The Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter published in Italy in 2015 has been translated into English, French and German. Judith Landry was educated at Somerville College, Oxford where she obtained a first class honours degree in French and Italian. Her translations from Italian for Dedalus are: The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga, New Finnish Grammar, God's Dog, The Last of the Vostyachs and The Interpreter by Diego Marani, The Mussolini Canal by Antonio Pennacchi, Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter by Margherita Giacobino. Her translation of New Finnish Grammar was awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.

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