A tender, poetic coming-of-age tale drawn from author Carmine Abate’s childhood in the village of Carfizzi, The Round Dance transforms southern Italy into a magical realist wonderland that rivals Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo. A multicultural masterpiece inspired by ancient Albanian oral traditions, publisher Mondadori named it among the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.
A tender, poetic coming-of-age tale drawn from author Carmine Abate’s childhood in the village of Carfizzi, The Round Dance transforms southern Italy into a magical realist wonderland that rivals Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo. A multicultural masterpiece inspired by ancient Albanian oral traditions, publisher Mondadori named it among the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.
CARMINE ABATE is a prolific Italian author whose many books include the novels Between Two Seas and The Homecoming Party and the short story collection The Wedding Banquet and Other Flavors. His debut novel, The Round Dance (Il ballo tondo), won the ARGE ALP Readers’ International Prize. MICHELANGELO LA LUNA is a professor of Italian language and literature at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of several books and articles on Italian and Italian-Albanian writers and poets, such as Carmine Abate, Luigi Capuana, Dante Alighieri, Girolamo De Rada, Dacia Maraini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Foreword, "Memory and Identity Performance in the Imagined 'Hora' of Albanians of Italy or Arbëreshë," Francesco Altimari Translator's Note, Michelangelo La Luna Lojmë lojmë, vasha, vallen Prologue Një Dy Tre Katër Pesë Gjashtë Shtatë Tetë Nendë Djetë Eleven Vu spërvjeret Skandërbeku Viatrice delle fate The Green-Eyed Partridge The Smallest White Castle in the World The Little Ladies and the Bored Little Soldier The Round Dance Skanderbeg's Bust The Christmas Hearth The Fake Mericano Zëmërgùri Two Fingers of Honor on the Forehead Ish një jëmë shumë e mirë Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-One Shkoi një ditë mjegullore The Final Vallja Author's Note Notes on Contributors
Foreword, "Memory and Identity Performance in the Imagined 'Hora' of Albanians of Italy or Arbëreshë," Francesco Altimari Translator's Note, Michelangelo La Luna Lojmë lojmë, vasha, vallen Prologue Një Dy Tre Katër Pesë Gjashtë Shtatë Tetë Nendë Djetë Eleven Vu spërvjeret Skandërbeku Viatrice delle fate The Green-Eyed Partridge The Smallest White Castle in the World The Little Ladies and the Bored Little Soldier The Round Dance Skanderbeg's Bust The Christmas Hearth The Fake Mericano Zëmërgùri Two Fingers of Honor on the Forehead Ish një jëmë shumë e mirë Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-One Shkoi një ditë mjegullore The Final Vallja Author's Note Notes on Contributors
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