A collection of short stories about women who must get by with many uncertainties and emotional defeat.
In life’s dark corners, between the province and the city, the she-cyclopes come across occasional, badly-paid jobs, love that’s ended or never begun, ghostly visions and fantastical apparitions. What often awaits them is not a reward, but staff cuts, halved wages and misfortunes, and they now see life through just one eye. The moment they wish they could look away is precisely the time when they have to face reality. In this collection about the world around us, about how we see it and the possibility of not demanding perfection and clarity from every moment of our journey, Manuela Piemonte does not shy away from tackling the important topics of the present with lucidity, irony and intelligence. Moreover, her protagonists are alive and kicking despite the generation to which they were born and the chaotic, unpredictable years when they must seek themselves at all costs.
“A ruthless, lucid but also poetical portrayal of everyday reality from the women’s point of view. The women in these stories sometimes choose to look only with one eye because that makes it easier for them to adapt, keep going and plod ahead.”. Corriere della Sera
Manuela Piemonte lives and works in Milan, where
she was born in 1978. She translates fiction from English
and Spanish, writes for the cinema and champions reading
in libraries. Her writings have been published on several
literary magazines. Her novel Le Amazzoni (Rizzoli 2021)
won the Kilhgren-Malvasi prize and has been published in
France, the Netherlands and Portugal.
Pub date: January 2024
Length: 128 pp
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