Elena Loewenthal (Il tempo dei chissà, Einaudi) has written an intimate and universal novel that forces us to peer, once again, into the abyss of our twentieth century. In the late 1930s, the Auerbach family received a letter announcing the revocation of their Italian citizenship. What mark does a crack like this leave on places, on lives? The author interrogates memory to show how oblivion works, and offers us a poignant novel about the ways we coexist with what has been, with what continues to inhabit our homes. Donatella Signetti converses with her.
Elena Loewenthal (Il tempo dei chissà, Einaudi) has written an intimate and universal novel that forces us to peer, once again, into the abyss of our twentieth century. In the late 1930s, the Auerbach family received a letter announcing the revocation of their Italian citizenship. What mark does a crack like this leave on places, on lives? The author interrogates memory to show how oblivion works, and offers us a poignant novel about the ways we coexist with what has been, with what continues to inhabit our homes. Donatella Signetti converses with her.