Readers of translated fiction are welcomed to the Autumn edition of the VOCE BOOKS (CLUB), where we’ll be joined by Birmingham’s own GEORGIA WALL to discuss her translation of Italian author SUSANNA BISSOLI’s delicate family portrait STRUCK—the latest book from new publishers LINDEN EDITIONS.
Anyone who survives a lightning strike knows what it means to be alive. When Vera is diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time, she moves back in with her cantankerous and entrepreneurial father, Zeno. It is the first time she has slept in the family home since her mother died, of the same cancer, almost a decade earlier. Wandering through this house which vibrates with solitude, Vera stumbles upon Zeno's most surprising secret: a novel.
Vera herself is a writer, but she hasn't published work for years. Confined now to Quaderni, a village in the province of Verona, and haunted by signs of mortality, the discovery of her father's private fantasy world presents an unexpected opportunity.
Constructed between family visits, hospital appointments, and through fragments of memories, conversations, and the kernels of stories yet to be written, STRUCK is at once a delicate portrait of a family navigating life's catastrophes and a gently defiant celebration of the act of writing.
GEORGIA WALL is a translator & creative workshop facilitator & part-time publishing manager for independent Birmingham-based publisher The Emma Press. She was awarded the 2020-21 National Centre for Writing’s ‘Emerging Translator’ Mentorship for Italian, shortlisted for the inaugural (2024) Fern Academy Prize & has a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Warwick.
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