Claudia Durastanti is een Italiaanse auteur wier werk zich verdiept in complexe familiedynamiek en de zoektocht naar identiteit. Haar proza kenmerkt zich door een introspectieve stijl en een scherp inzicht in menselijke relaties. Durastanti verkent vaak thema's als vervreemding en verbondenheid, waarbij haar verhalen met poëtische precisie voortvloeien. Haar schrijven wordt gewaardeerd om zijn emotionele diepgang en literaire kwaliteit.
A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Both parents are deaf but couldn't be more different. Into this unlikely yet somehow inevitable union, our narrator is born and comes of age in this strange, and increasingly estranged, household split between a small village in southern Italy and New York City.
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