Summary
Fosca Salmaso: My Sister
Since her twin sister lost her life in a tragic accident at sea, before her eyes, young Alice found herself completely alone: her father left the family, her mother was completely overcome by grief, and her friends moved away. She spends her days at school and at home, surrounded by the forest of waves that wash over the island, silence or outbursts of anger from her mother, who - apparently - considers her guilty for outliving Matilda. And then, one day, Egle comes to class - a girl who appeared out of nowhere and who is so similar to her sister. Could it be that Egle brought a breath of fresh air to the suffocating monument her mother had turned the house into, among the framed photographs, untouchable relics and forbidden rooms? However, Alice does not see that something evil and mysterious is hiding in Egla - a shadow that connects her and Matilda with mysterious threads and that will grow, hour by hour, until it swallows everything around it. Fosca Salmazo enters the literary scene with a novel in which the well-known and ghostly echoes of Shirley Jackson live. "My sister" takes the reader on a journey between unfathomable reality and seductive madness, between the realm of the living and the abyss of the unknown.
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