The Little I Knew
by Chiara Valerio & Ailsa Wood (translator)
The Little I Knew by Chiara Valerio is a portrait of a small town and the women who live there. When Vittoria dies unexpectedly in her bath, the event is met with sad but respectful southern Italian silence by the townsfolk of Scauri, but Lea, the town lawyer wants to investigate. Who was Vittoria, what were her secrets, why had she mysteriously arrived in town thirty years earlier? And was her relationship with Lea all that it seemed? Virginia Woolf meets Elena Ferrante in this huge Italian bestseller that was shortlisted for the Premio Strega in 2024.
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“The Little I Knew by Chiara Valerio is a portrait of a small town and the women who live there. When Vittoria dies unexpectedly in her bath, the event is met with sad by respectful southern Italian silence by the townsfolk of Scauri, but Lea, the town lawyer wants to investigate. Who was Vittoria, what were her secrets, why had she mysteriously arrived in town thirty years earlier? And was her relationship with Lea all that it seemed? Virginia Woolf meets Elena Ferrante in this huge Italian bestseller that was shortlisted for the Premio Strega in 2024.” Read more...
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