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 · Nicknamed “arminuta”, “the one who was returned”, the narrator feels not so much returned as doubly abandoned: “an orphan with two living www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min. Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy’s most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned is a powerful novel rendered with sensitivity and verve by Ann Goldstein, translator of the works of Elena Ferrante. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, . Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy’s most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned is a powerful novel rendered with sensitivity and verve by Ann Goldstein, translator of the works of Elena Ferrante. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, /5().

Donatella Di Pietrantonio Born in Teramo Province, Abruzzo, Donatella Di Pietrantonio completed her studies in the provincial capital, Aquila, and now lives in Penne. Her short fiction has been published by Granta Italy, and her novel, Bella mia, was nominated for the Strega Prize and won the Brancati Prize.A Girl Returned, her third novel, won the Campiello Prize. For most of the novel Ms Di Pietrantonio keeps both her protagonist and her readers in the dark. All their questions are answered by way of shock truths in the final act, in which the girl and her mamma are brought together for a powerful showdown. Expertly translated by Ann Goldstein, A Girl Returned is as heart-warming as it is heart-rending. A Girl Returned Overview. A Girl Returned is a novel by Donatella Di Pietrantonio. The story follows an unnamed year-old narrator who is unexpectedly returned to her birth family by her adoptive parents. Her birth family is not particularly welcoming, and the narrator's new family life is one of poverty and abuse.

A GIRL RETURNED. by Donatella Di Pietrantonio ; translated by Ann Goldstein ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 2, In this slim novel by award-winning Italian author Di Pietrantonio, her first translated into English, a year-old girl raised by distant relatives as their own is sent abruptly back to her birth family with little explanation. A Girl Returned. by. Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Ann Goldstein (Translator) · Rating details · 10, ratings · 1, reviews. Winner of the Campiello Prize. A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator. “I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. The impact is felt everywhere from the bank to the bedroom, and none of these tensions escape the still-young Italian novelist Donatella Di Pietrantonio. Her debut in English, “A Girl Returned.