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PERDUTO È QUESTO MARE
Two fathers, two destinies, one unforgettable journey through loss and belonging.
Naples 1950s. A city so full of light it seems almost magical, yet also devastated by war and forgotten by history. Two men, two fathers. Suddenly, a young girl is taken away from this world, leaving her father in the shadows of an elegant yet decaying home. She believes she has forgotten him, but decades later, the death of a beloved friend and mentor, the Neapolitan writer Raffaele La Capria, brings his image back from the depths of her memory.
The two men led different lives: one fulfilled through his books, the other trapped in his solitude. Yet both were captivated and repelled by a city of wonder and desolation, both shaken and wounded by intimate secrets. Against the backdrop of their desires and struggles, a journey begins into the foreign land of the past, weaving the story of a young girl who grows up in a world unwelcoming to women who refuse to conform.
A profound and moving novel about a difficult father-daughter relationship and a powerful friendship.
It is a journey into the distant realm of fathers, filled with deep love, abandonment, joy, and melancholy, echoing ancient storiesfrom Aeneas searching for Anchises in the underworld to Kafka's resentful letter to his father.
Elisabetta Rasy
Born in Rome, where she lives and works, she has written about literature and art for cultural magazines and newspapers. She published for Rizzoli: Posillipo (1997), L'ombra della luna (1999), Tra noi due (2002), La scienza degli addii (2005), L'estranea (2007), Memorie di una lettrice notturna (2009), Le regole del fuoco (2016, Premio Selezione Campiello) and for Mondadori Le disobbedienti (2019), inspired by six important female painters of the past. Her works are translated in many European countries.
The two men led different lives: one fulfilled through his books, the other trapped in his solitude. Yet both were captivated and repelled by a city of wonder and desolation, both shaken and wounded by intimate secrets. Against the backdrop of their desires and struggles, a journey begins into the foreign land of the past, weaving the story of a young girl who grows up in a world unwelcoming to women who refuse to conform.
A profound and moving novel about a difficult father-daughter relationship and a powerful friendship.
It is a journey into the distant realm of fathers, filled with deep love, abandonment, joy, and melancholy, echoing ancient storiesfrom Aeneas searching for Anchises in the underworld to Kafka's resentful letter to his father.
Elisabetta Rasy
Born in Rome, where she lives and works, she has written about literature and art for cultural magazines and newspapers. She published for Rizzoli: Posillipo (1997), L'ombra della luna (1999), Tra noi due (2002), La scienza degli addii (2005), L'estranea (2007), Memorie di una lettrice notturna (2009), Le regole del fuoco (2016, Premio Selezione Campiello) and for Mondadori Le disobbedienti (2019), inspired by six important female painters of the past. Her works are translated in many European countries.
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Published 2025-02-04 by Rizzoli |