Stranger
Original title: Strangera
Synopsis
Aidala’s novel proceeds with the slow and sure pace of a hike through the peaks. The page generates the salutary discomfort caused by radical novels unwilling to please the reader.’ — Fabrizio Ottaviani – Il Giornale
‘Very well orchestrated reports of contrary tenors in the slow novel-like progress of sensations and emotions, cadenced in chorus by a constantly personified landscape.’ — Ermanno Paccagnini – la Lettura
‘The novel contains one of the most beautiful love stories in our current literature.’
— Filippo La Porta – Robinson‘Aidala makes her debut with this book, and time will tell how much her star will continue to make new eyes and desires and even dreams. But in the meantime we have seen a new star shine.’— Alberto Infelise – La Stampa
‘The truth is that in the mountains almost everyone is a stranger. You can belong to different worlds but it’s the place you choose that becomes your home.’ — Deborah Ameri – iO Donna
‘One seems to smell the smell of high pastures and a fire in the fireplace while reading Marta Aidala’s La strangera, an out-of-the-ordinary debut novel.’ — Cristina De Stefano – Elle
‘The mountain unites worlds that would most likely not be able to meet in the valley. In this and it’s great beauty.’— Laura Pezzino – Natural Style
The mountains are immense women, yet many bear the names of men.
“A stranger.” It was that man who first called me that, and I wanted to answer what I would tell everyone else later, that up there in the mountains I was just as much of a stranger as they were.”
Take your life and go – to understand yourself, find a future, and no longer go down but stay. These are the reasons why, one morning in May, Beatrice leaves Turin to move to the mountains. Those mountains that, she is sure, are women even if they often have male names. Women like her, who just arrived at the refuge of Barba, a gruff man with a mysterious past, feel rejected, as a human and a stranger.
Marketing Information
- English translation available (made by DeepL)