The Intimate Lives of Our Ancestors: A Note to My Cousin Lauretta, Who Would Like to Believe She Was Born by Parthenogenesis
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Ada Bertrand, 37, a former rebel and hippie who teaches ancient Greek literature at the University of Bologna, experiences a vivid erotic adventure with a stranger at an academic conference in Cambridge, forgets her inherent rationality and rediscovers her family's tangled history. She begins to dream of her distant ancestors, petty noblemen who lived in Sardinia, and in real life she begins to communicate with older members of the family.
Ada discovers many family secrets: love affairs, tragedies and betrayals, secret births and the emergence of bastards - all the things that decent families don't talk about. It changes her outlook on life and her relationships with others forever. At the same time, dramatic changes are taking place in her own life, and Ada is coming to understand herself better and better.
Bianca Pitzorno masterfully weaves together times and genres: family saga and psychological prose, magical realism and sentimental narrative, the color of Italy of the XVI and XIX centuries and modernity.
Ada discovers many family secrets: love affairs, tragedies and betrayals, secret births and the emergence of bastards - all the things that decent families don't talk about. It changes her outlook on life and her relationships with others forever. At the same time, dramatic changes are taking place in her own life, and Ada is coming to understand herself better and better.
Bianca Pitzorno masterfully weaves together times and genres: family saga and psychological prose, magical realism and sentimental narrative, the color of Italy of the XVI and XIX centuries and modernity.
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