Follow Your Heart

New ed

Susanna Tamaro

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Altri dati

Formato:
Paperback
Editore:
Vintage
Anno di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua:
Inglese
Lingua originale:
Italian
Pagine:
192
Dimensioni:
198 X 129
Traduttore:
Avril Bardoni
Codice EAN:
9780749396978
Generi:
Literature & Fiction, Modern Fiction
Prezzo di copertina:
£ 7,99

I contenuti

Driven by the fear of encroaching death, an elderly woman describes to a write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love letter and part confession, it is most importantly a bequest from an old woman at last brave enough to acknowledge that she has too long repressed her feelings and submitted to convention. Reliving everything that has happened to her she seeks to remind her granddaughter that the one worthwhile journey in life to the centre of oneself, in search of that original voice we all guard deep inside.

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This wan roman, whose hortatory pleading never rises beyond the level of Know Thyself, is an obvious entry in the Having Our Say/Bridges of Madison County sweepstakes. It comprises a serial letter of advice, written between one mid-November and Christmas, by Olga, an old Italian woman, for her fugitive granddaughter in America. In it, Olga describes her own thwarted intellectual hunger, unhappy marriage, gratifying adultery, and traumatic loss of her only daughter - all the while admonishing the daughter's daughter to be her own woman (which, essentially, she's already doing). The best that can be said for this sententious offertory of feminine wisdom is that it's smoothly written and translated and its bromides go down easily. Follow Your Heart won Italy's Premio Donna Citta di Roma in 1994. Che sara sara. (Kirkus Reviews)