L'Arminuta

Ci sono romanzi che toccano corde cos profonde, originarie, che sembrano chiamarci per nome quello che accade con L Arminuta fin dalla prima pagina, quando la protagonista, con una valigia in mano e una sacca di scarpe nell altra, suona a una porta sconosciuta Ad aprirle, sua sorella Adriana, gli occhi stropicciati, le trecce sfatte non si sono mai viste prima Inizia cos questa storia dirompente e ammaliatrice con una ragazzina che da un giorno all altro perde tutto una casa confortevole, le amiche pi care, l affetto incondizionato dei genitori O meglio, di quelli che credeva i suoi genitori Per l Arminuta la ritornata , come la chiamano i compagni, comincia una nuova e diversissima vita La casa piccola, buia, ci sono fratelli dappertutto e poco cibo sul tavolo Ma c Adriana, che condivide il letto con lei E c Vincenzo, che la guarda come fosse gi una donna E in quello sguardo irrequieto, smaliziato, lei pu forse perdersi per cominciare a ritrovarsi L accettazione di un doppio abbandono possibile solo tornando alla fonte a se stessi Donatella Di Pietrantonio conosce le parole per dirlo, e affronta il tema della maternit , della responsabilit e della cura, da una prospettiva originale e con una rara intensit espressiva Le basta dare ascolto alla sua terra, a quell Abruzzo poco conosciuto, ruvido e aspro, che improvvisamente si accende col riflesso del mare. Best Read L'Arminuta Author Donatella Di Pietrantonio For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 4.5 stars rounding up The girl is sent from a comfortable life with parents who weren t really hers and returned to the family that was hers by blood, to a home very different from the one in which she was raised, a home of dysfunction and discomfort, where slaps were plentiful but not food She is sent back without knowing why and the truth is not known to her until close to the end It s not difficult to feel her heartbreak and confusion, sense of loss and identity The unnamed narrator was 13 4.5 stars rounding up The girl is sent from a co...Update.THE REVIEW Sunday morning Sunshine in Northern California The year was 1975 A small town in Italy.Yet..this story is being told 20 years later.looking back on a childhood It s a thin quiet introspective novel Very heartfelt story She was thirteen We never learn her name She didn t know her other mother, the mother who conceived her A distant uncle dropped the girl off with her biological mother and their family The uncle explained that they he and his wife, Update.THE ...I was the Arminuta, the girl returned I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to The word mama stuck in my throat like a toad And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is It is not mine in the way one might have good health, a safe place, certainty I finished a few hours ago to read this book, read it exactly in a day, and it is there nailed in my mind I remember very well when it came out in Italy and the many heated discussions that I was the Arminuta, the girl returned I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to The word mama stuck in my throat like a toad And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is It is not mine in the way one might have good health, a safe place, certainty I finished a few hours ago to read this book, read it exactly in a day, and it is there nailed in my mind I remember very well when it came out in Italy and the many heated discussions that followed, both on TV and online the various factions of those who praised the work and those who blamed or belittled the Di Pietrantonio, with jokes like the new VERISTA of the 21th century as if it were a fault to see herself side by side with a great like Giovanni Verga or even Ignazio silone even if it seems to me an unbelievable comparison I bought the book immediately, but for some strange reason, sorry not strange, my pathological mistrust of the Italian contemporary authors,. I immediately put it in my living ...In 1975, I was the Arminuta, the girl returned A thirteen year old girl once lived near the sea in Southern Italy From my house near the beach, you could hear the sound of the waves Fish dinners eaten in the garden and walks to the ice cream shop were commonplace She attended swimming lessons and dancing school Her best friend was Patrizia One day without warning, her parents said, I m sorry, but we can t keep you any She was whisked away to the country, to the chaotic home of In 1975, I was the Arminuta, the girl returned A thirteen year old girl once lived near the sea in Southern Italy From my house near t...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here A girl returned to her original family from her adoptive aunty and uncle Confused and angry and desperately wanting to go back to her original mum and dad, she has a difficult time becoming a part of her real family Her sister, Adriana takes her under her wing and together they battle out the strange and unique circumstances that become their lives I found this book farbelievable and compact and far less wordy than the Ferrante novels, however, it evoked the same atmosphere of A girl returned to her original family from her adoptive aunty and uncle Confused and angry and desperately wanting to go back to her origina...What a spellbinding book Narrated by a young teenage girl whose life is turned upside down when she is returned to her birth family by the people she believes to be her parents, this book crackles with intensity and poignancy right from the start.The girl tries to piece the puzzle together about why her parents gave her up, concluding that her mother was fatally ill after all, before she left, her mother was confined to bed and vomiting Without any factual information, she adjusts to the What a spellbinding book Narrated by a young teenage girl whose life is turned upside down when she is returned to her birth family by the people she believes to be her pa...Excellent novella You never learn her name Terrific writer and this is the only one that has been translated By the same Ann Goldstein who has translated Ferrante Don t expect the writing to be parallel though This is, IMHO, overall BETTER,to the crux and identity cores.You WILL read the sister and brother, Adriana and Vincenzo their names continually It s the anminuta s voice Anminuata, she who has returned But never her proper name.It s told 20 years later than the 1975 of its Excellent novella You never learn her name Terrific writer and this is the only one that has been translated By the same Ann Goldstein who has translated Ferrante Don t expect the writing to be parallel though This is, IMHO, overall BETTER,to the crux and identity cores.You WILL read the sister and brother, Adriana an...I was an orphan with two living mothers One had given me up with her milk still on my tongue, the other had given me back at the age of thirteen I was a child of separations, false or unspoken kinships, distances Remember that section in Austen s Mansfield Park where Fanny Price returns to her ramshackle family in Portsmouth who gave her away This book takes that premise slightlycomplicated here and explores the tensions via the unnamed narrator caught between the poverty strickenI was an orphan with two living mothers One had given me up with her milk still on my tongue, the other had given me back at the age of thi...4.5 stars rounded up because the audiobook edition is fantastic In spite of its short length Arminuta packs a real punch I was almost hypnotised by the narrative Although Di Pietrantonio uses a seemingly direct and unadorned languageshe is able to brilliantly evoke the narrator s world However stark and unpleasant, everything was depicted in such a sharp and vivid way that I was entranced even by those scenes which held no beauty view spoiler that barbered wire scene and the tooth one 4.5 stars rounded up because th...The premise of this book captured mea girl raised by one set of parents is suddenly returned to her biological family As if that wasn t bad enough, she doesn t really even receive an adequate explanation for the sudden change in circumstances It wasn t a farfetched idea, in that I know this kind of thing happens all the time in the real world Adopted children are given back to children s services, people leave their biological children adrift, foster kids bounce from ho...

• Italian
• 09 June 2019
Donatella Di Pietrantonio
• Hardcover
• 163 pages
• 880623210X
• Donatella Di Pietrantonio
• L'Arminuta