70% Acrylic 30% Wool
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- Synopsis
- A Campiello Award–winning novel &“Di Grado&’s black comedy, pungent metaphors and controlled ambiguity announce the arrival of a considerable talent&” (The Times Literary Supplement). Camelia is a young Italian woman who lives with her mother in Leeds, a city where it is always December and winter has been underway for such a long time that nobody is old enough to have seen what came before. She&’s dropped out of university and translates instruction manuals for an Italian washing machine manufacturer. Her mother, Livia Mega, once a renowned flautist, spends her days inside taking photographs of holes she finds in the house. Camelia and her mother communicate in a language of their own invention, in which words play no part. The lives of these two women have been undone by a calamity in their recent past, and there seems little or no possibility of ever finding their way back to a normal life. But one day Camelia meets Wen, a local shop owner. To win Camelia&’s affections, Wen begins teaching her Chinese ideograms. Through this new language of signs and subtle variations, Camelia learns to see the world anew and, in it, a chance for renewal. &“70% Acrylic 30% Wool is incredibly sculpted and tight, with carefully woven images and language that repeat in chiseled arcs, creating a rhythmic narrative that radiates with Di Grado&’s mastery of craft.&” —Music & Literature Magazine &“This offbeat novel is rather more sophisticated than it first appears . . . a subtle meditation on language and its failures.&” —Financial Times &“Written in lavish language and with beautiful metaphors.&” —The Star Tribune
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 192 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781609458614
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781609450779
- Publisher:
- Europa Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 09/18/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Europa Editions
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Michael Reynolds