Elvira Dones

Sworn Virgin

Übersetzer: Botsford, Clarissa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Independence in the Albanian mountains means a vow to become a man-independence in America means reclaiming her womanhood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781908276346
• ISBN-10: 1908276347
• Artikelnr.: 39577533

Autorenporträt

Born in Durrës, Albania, Elvira Dones is a novelist, screenwriter and documentary film-maker currently based in the US. After seven novels in Albanian, she wrote the two most recent in Italian, her adopted language: Vergine giurata (Sworn Virgin, 2007), and Piccola guerra perfetta (Small Perfect War, 2010) about the Kosovo war. In her prize-winning documentary on the phenomenon of 'sworn virgins' in Albania, Dones interviews twelve survivors of the tradition, one of whom has recently emigrated to the US, like Hana in the novel. A film of the book is due out in 2014. Clarissa Botsford studied Italian at Cambridge and Comparative Education in London before moving to Rome, Italy. She has worked in the fields of teaching, intercultural education and publishing and is also a musician. She currently teaches English and Translation Studies at Rome University and translates contemporary Italian fiction and poetry.