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SUMMARY:Independent Bookshop Week – Partnership with Foundry Editions
DESCRIPTION:Throughout Independent Bookshop Week\, we are delighted to be partnering with Foundry Editions to celebrate their stunning books. \nLook out for our Foundry window display and art work\, book club reading one of our absolute favourites published by Foundry and a very special event with Chiara Valerio celebrating the publication of The Little I Knew.  \nMore about Foundry: \nFoundry Editions was set up in 2023 out of a love for discovering and sharing new voices\, a love for the Mediterranean and the people and lands that surround it\, and a love of internationalism and reading across borders. We are on a mission to uncover authors who are new to English speakers\, and to share the joy of reading their stories\, which come from a part of the world that has always been a source of cultural and emotional inspiration for English language readers.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.info/event/independent-bookshop-week-partnership-with-foundry-editions/
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SUMMARY:Chiara Valerio: The Little I Knew
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to welcome Chiara Valerio to celebrate the publication of The Little I Knew.\n \nDo join us to meet Chiara\, hear a discussion about the book and get your copies signed on 18 June\, part of our Independent Bookshop Week partnership with publisher Foundry Editions. \nChiara Valerio was born in Scauri in 1978 and lives in Rome. She has published essays\, novels and short stories\, including: La gioia piccola d’esser quasi salvi (2009)\, Spiaggia libera tutti (2010)\, Il cuore non si vede (2019)\, La matematica è politica (2020)\, Nessuna scuola mi consola (2021)\, Così per sempre (2022)\, La tecnologia è religione (2023) \nThe event is free but please do RSVP to read@heronbooks.info so that we have an idea of numbers. \nAbout the book:\nIn Scauri\, an end of the line seaside town forty miles or so from Rome\, Vittoria dies unexpectedly in her bath. Whilst the townsfolk meet the event with sad but respectful southern Italian silence\, Lea\, the town lawyer\, wants to investigate. Who was Vittoria\, what were her secrets\, why had she mysteriously arrived in Scauri thirty years earlier? And was her relationship with Lea all that it seemed? \nIn this unforgettable portrait of a small town and the women who live there\, reverberations from the past catch up with present. Through the silences\, Vittoria’s story is revealed and everything – passions\, emotions\, and relationships – changes forever. \nNovelist\, editor\, critic\, cultural commentator and mathematician Chiara Valerio is a sensation in Italy and The Little I Knew is a huge bestseller. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Premio Strega. \nTranslated from Italian by Ailsa Wood:\nAilsa is a translator from Italian and French. Her work on Stafano Benni’s monologues from Le Beatrice was the winner of the prestigious John Dryden Translation Prize in 2022.  Besides her work as a literary translator\, she works across various related sectors including wine and tourism. Ailsa has and M.A. in Literary Translation (with Distinction) from the University of East Anglia and lives in Italy. \nThis event has been made possible with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.info/event/chiara-valerio-the-little-i-knew/
LOCATION:Heron Books\, 7a Regent Street\, Bristol\, BS8 4HW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Independent Bookshop Week
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