Summary
Donatella Di Pietrantonio: Southern Suburbs
The protagonist of the novel Southern Suburbs, a considerate and lenient woman, teaches at the University of Grenoble, while her sister Adriana, wild and reckless, lives precariously in the fishing suburb of Pescara. After years of separation, the narrator receives an invitation to urgently return to her hometown due to an accident that occurred. The return evokes a flood of memories: of a childhood full of unspoken words, of an engagement and the unexpected breakup of a marriage, of the night when Adriana came to her door with a baby, of all the unpleasant truths and disappointed expectations. In Pescara, he will find out what happened to Adriano and try to face the past.
Donatella di Pietrantonio, a writer who is not afraid to face pain and show it as it is, without embellishment, returns to the place and characters from the novel Returned to the Southern Suburbs. Depicting the ambivalent, frustrating relationship between two sisters imbued with fierce loyalty, Di Pietrantonio gives us an emotional story about family, memory, love and the bonds that define us.
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