Francesca Manfredi

The Silent Period (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Oklap, Ekin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A worldweary, disillusioned young woman grapples with the complexities of communication in this arresting novel from Italy's new Sally Rooney (Corriere della Sera).

Cristina Martino is 28 and adrift. Underemployed at a university library, she still lives at home with her parents in Turin, in the shadow of her married, affable older sister Elena. One night, as she listlessly scrolls through Instagram, Cristina decides to delete her social media profiles.

What is at first a digital detox becomes an act of selfeffacement: Cristina ceases to speak. While continuing her daily life, she deprives herself of words and gestures, at first maintaining only essential communication through writing and, finally, eliminating even that. When Cristina disappears completely, Elena desperately tries to find her, and, in the process, discovers a world much quieter and stranger than she ever imagined.

Blending sparse prose, bilious wit, and unexpected tenderness, Manfredi probes at the condition of solitudewhether chosen or suffered, salvific or fataland the ineffability of existence. A slender novel of big ideas, The Silent Period is an indictment of modern hypocrisy and a testament to our need for genuine human connection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324106104
• Artikelnr.: 75601405

Autorenporträt

Francesca Manfredi is a graduate of the creative writing school Scuola Holden. Her debut novel, The Empire of Dirt, was published by W. W. Norton in 2022 and her debut short story collection, Un Buon Posto Dove Stare (A Place to Stay In), won Italy's Premio Campiello Opera Prima. She lives in Turin, Italy.