Mario Fortunato

The Imaginary Life of a Laurel Tree (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Moore, Michael F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An Italian teacher's relationship with his male student sparks legal and personal turmoil in this compelling novel of truth, desire, and power. A group of old friends are unexpectedly reunited in Calabria for a dinner party. After a time, the conversation turns to reminiscing about their adolescence and recent allegations surrounding a former teacher, Professor Marco Ferro. Suggestions, gossip, and hints at a much darker past surprise and unsettle the narrator. Days later, still reeling from the news, he begins to grapple with a truth that is much more complicated than his nostalgic memories. His search rekindles an old relationship with his former high school friend-Federica, beautiful and spoiled, married to Lino, and the mother of two boys-which in turn unspools in complicated and unanticipated ways. The action then moves to Tunisia, London, and Rome, in an incessant pursuit of who tells and who is told. In the end, it is the story of Professor Marco Ferro and his young student Yussef, played out in both courtrooms and newspaper columns, that restores truth to the complicated sentimental geometries of the narrator and Federica. Grappling with secrets and entangled power dynamics, Mario Fortunato's timely new novel raises questions that rarely have simple or unequivocal answers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Other Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781635424676
• Artikelnr.: 75313588

Autorenporträt

Mario Fortunato was born in Cirò, Calabria, Italy. For three decades he worked as a literary critic for the Italian current affairs magazine L’Espresso. More recently he has worked as a columnist for the German daily paper Süddeutsche Zeitung. He has also served as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London. In addition to writing novels such as South (Other Press, 2023), a New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year, he has translated into Italian works by Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. Michael F. Moore is the award-winning translator, most recently, of The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni, hailed as a landmark literary event. His translations range from twentieth-century classics—Agostino by Alberto Moravia and The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi—to contemporary novels, including Live Bait, by Fabio Genovesi. Moore is the former chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and has a PhD in Italian from New York University. For many years he was also an interpreter at the United Nations and a full-time staff member of the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations.