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The Intimate Lives of Our Ancestors: A Note to My Cousin Lauretta, Who Would Like to Believe She Was Born Through Parthenogenesis

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The Intimate Lives of Our Ancestors: A Note to My Cousin Lauretta, Who Would Like to Believe She Was Born Through Parthenogenesis
9.99 €
Thirty-seven-year-old Ada Bertrand, a professor of ancient Greek literature at the University of Bologna and a former rebel and hippie, experiences a vivid erotic encounter with a stranger at a scientific conference in Cambridge. She abandons her inherent rationality and rediscovers the tangled history of her family. She begins to dream of her distant ancestors, minor nobles who lived in Sardinia, and in reality, communicate with older family members.
Ada uncovers numerous family secrets: love affairs, tragedies and betrayals, secret births and the birth of bastards—everything that is not customary to speak of in respectable families. This forever changes her outlook on life and her relationships with others. At the same time, dramatic changes are taking place in her own life, and Ada increasingly understands herself. Bianca Pizzorno masterfully weaves together eras and genres: family saga and psychological prose, magical realism and sentimental tale, the flavor of Italy in the 16th and 19th centuries and modern times.
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