Matilde Waltzing
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Elise Valmorbida
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Valmorbida does for terriers what Churchill did for bulldogs . . . An impressively literate first novel by a writer unafraid of narrative experiment or cultural border-crossing. DR DAVID BENNETT, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Matilde Manin leaves behind her Old World to discover a New World at a time when the whole world is being changed by Depression and War. From her childhood in Northern Italy to her death in Melbourne, Matilde's off-key life unravels in ways which echo the unsettling hagiography of the bizarre Saint Barbara. This is an astonishing, entertaining and moving story. Moments of magical realism break the boundaries of conventional fiction. Narrative voices include Remo the mythical co-founder of Rome and the Scottish Terrier whose cameo is the map of Australia. A wild, evocative piece of storytelling from an exciting new talent. A very strange and ultimately seductive tale charting one woman's emigration from Italy to Australia during the rise of fascism. Its fragmented narrative explores the sense of alienation experienced as a stranger in a strange land, as migrant, as other. ANITA RODDICK, OBE, FOUNDER OF THE BODY SHOP Worlds in this text are quartz-like objects that contain miniature worlds folded within . . . This is a miraculous work: iconoclastic, compassionate and brilliantly witty. PROFESSOR ROSI BRAIDOTTI, AUTHOR OF PATTERNS OF DISSONANCE.
Author: Elise Valmorbida
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Valmorbida does for terriers what Churchill did for bulldogs . . . An impressively literate first novel by a writer unafraid of narrative experiment or cultural border-crossing. DR DAVID BENNETT, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Matilde Manin leaves behind her Old World to discover a New World at a time when the whole world is being changed by Depression and War. From her childhood in Northern Italy to her death in Melbourne, Matilde's off-key life unravels in ways which echo the unsettling hagiography of the bizarre Saint Barbara. This is an astonishing, entertaining and moving story. Moments of magical realism break the boundaries of conventional fiction. Narrative voices include Remo the mythical co-founder of Rome and the Scottish Terrier whose cameo is the map of Australia. A wild, evocative piece of storytelling from an exciting new talent. A very strange and ultimately seductive tale charting one woman's emigration from Italy to Australia during the rise of fascism. Its fragmented narrative explores the sense of alienation experienced as a stranger in a strange land, as migrant, as other. ANITA RODDICK, OBE, FOUNDER OF THE BODY SHOP Worlds in this text are quartz-like objects that contain miniature worlds folded within . . . This is a miraculous work: iconoclastic, compassionate and brilliantly witty. PROFESSOR ROSI BRAIDOTTI, AUTHOR OF PATTERNS OF DISSONANCE.
Description
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Elise Valmorbida
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Valmorbida does for terriers what Churchill did for bulldogs . . . An impressively literate first novel by a writer unafraid of narrative experiment or cultural border-crossing. DR DAVID BENNETT, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Matilde Manin leaves behind her Old World to discover a New World at a time when the whole world is being changed by Depression and War. From her childhood in Northern Italy to her death in Melbourne, Matilde's off-key life unravels in ways which echo the unsettling hagiography of the bizarre Saint Barbara. This is an astonishing, entertaining and moving story. Moments of magical realism break the boundaries of conventional fiction. Narrative voices include Remo the mythical co-founder of Rome and the Scottish Terrier whose cameo is the map of Australia. A wild, evocative piece of storytelling from an exciting new talent. A very strange and ultimately seductive tale charting one woman's emigration from Italy to Australia during the rise of fascism. Its fragmented narrative explores the sense of alienation experienced as a stranger in a strange land, as migrant, as other. ANITA RODDICK, OBE, FOUNDER OF THE BODY SHOP Worlds in this text are quartz-like objects that contain miniature worlds folded within . . . This is a miraculous work: iconoclastic, compassionate and brilliantly witty. PROFESSOR ROSI BRAIDOTTI, AUTHOR OF PATTERNS OF DISSONANCE.
Author: Elise Valmorbida
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Valmorbida does for terriers what Churchill did for bulldogs . . . An impressively literate first novel by a writer unafraid of narrative experiment or cultural border-crossing. DR DAVID BENNETT, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Matilde Manin leaves behind her Old World to discover a New World at a time when the whole world is being changed by Depression and War. From her childhood in Northern Italy to her death in Melbourne, Matilde's off-key life unravels in ways which echo the unsettling hagiography of the bizarre Saint Barbara. This is an astonishing, entertaining and moving story. Moments of magical realism break the boundaries of conventional fiction. Narrative voices include Remo the mythical co-founder of Rome and the Scottish Terrier whose cameo is the map of Australia. A wild, evocative piece of storytelling from an exciting new talent. A very strange and ultimately seductive tale charting one woman's emigration from Italy to Australia during the rise of fascism. Its fragmented narrative explores the sense of alienation experienced as a stranger in a strange land, as migrant, as other. ANITA RODDICK, OBE, FOUNDER OF THE BODY SHOP Worlds in this text are quartz-like objects that contain miniature worlds folded within . . . This is a miraculous work: iconoclastic, compassionate and brilliantly witty. PROFESSOR ROSI BRAIDOTTI, AUTHOR OF PATTERNS OF DISSONANCE.
Matilde Waltzing