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    Arturo's Island: A Novel
    Arturo's Island: A Novel
    Arturo's Island: A Novel
    Audiobook15 hours

    Arturo's Island: A Novel

    Written by Elsa Morante

    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Once considered the greatest writer of Italy's postwar generation-and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen-Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein's translation of Arturo's Island, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted looking glass, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where-his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion-he roams the countryside and the beaches or reads in his family's lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering existence is upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen-year-old bride, Nunziatella.

    A novel of longing and thwarted desires, filled with Morante's "brutal directness and familial torment" (James Wood), Arturo's Island reemerges in this splendid translation to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    TranslatorAnn Goldstein
    Release dateFeb 19, 2019
    ISBN9781684418138
    Arturo's Island: A Novel

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    • 4/5
      A beautiful book, wholeheartedly recommended. It's very well written, full of poetry and adventure.
    • 4/5
      On the island of Procida off the coast of Naples, 14 year old Arturo leads an Edenic existence. His mother died when he is born, and his father disappears onto the mainland for weeks, sometimes months at a time, leaving Arturo free to explore the wonders of his island, coming and going as he pleases. Until the day his father steps off the ferry with a new wife and step-mother for Arturo, that is. Nunziata is just a couple of years older than Arturo, and with her arrival his world is up-ended. This is basically an unusual and enchanting coming of age novel, as Arturo must learn to navigate his way to maturity.
    • 4/5
      A great book about growing up on a small poor island community in southern Italy. Very human, very well written. How boundless the human spirit can be even within a confined territorial space.