Virtual Launch: A SILENCE SHARED

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Join us for the virtual celebration of A SILENCE SHARED: translator Brian Robert Moore and Eloisa Morra in conversation

Forced back to her remote hometown by the war, Giulia is immediately drawn to a couple in a similar situation: graceful, spontaneous Ada and her husband Paolo, a sickly teacher and partisan in hiding. Joined from Turin by Giulia’s husband Stefano, the two couples form an intense bond; as the Germans begin to occupy Italy, a subtle dance of attractions begins, intensified by their shared isolation and the muffled hum of threat over a long, hard winter.In prose of subtle, enigmatic atmospheres and acutely precise images, Lalla Romano evokes both the tension and the stillness of life in occupied Italy. Translated into English for the first time, A Silence Shared is a captivating classic novel that inhabits the silent spaces between historic events, depicting the mysterious luminosity of human relationships in extraordinary circumstances.Brian Robert Moore is a literary translator and writer from New York City. His translationsfrom the Italian include Lalla Romano’s A Silence Shared, Goliarda Sapienza’s Meeting inPositano, and Michele Mari’s You, Bleeding Childhood. He has received a NationalEndowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, a Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship,a PEN Translates award, and, for his translation of A Silence Shared, the PEN Grant for theEnglish Translation of Italian Literature.Eloisa Morra is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Toronto and acontributing writer at Il Sole 24 ore. She earned a MA and PhD from Harvard. She is theauthor of an award-winning monograph and the editor of several books and specialissues. She coordinates the Sciascia Archive Project at the University of Toronto, is partof the organizing team of Italo Calvino’s centennial and is co-curator of the series“Elettra”. Her essays and criticism have appeared in LA Review of Books, Flash Art,European Review of Books, among others. Her work has been supported by the GladysG. Krieble Delmas Foundation, Cini Foundation, Centre for Italian Modern Art and theCivitella Ranieri Foundation.

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