Giulia Caminito
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Giulia Caminito
Giulia Caminito’s first novel, The Big A, won the Bagutta Opera Prima Prize, the Berto Prize, and the Brancati Giovani Prize. She is also the author of The Day Will Come, The Bitter Water of the Lake, and Amatissime.
The Bitter Water of the Lake won the 2021 Campiello Prize and was a finalist for the Strega Prize. Caminito’s books have been translated in over 20 countries.
Hope Campbell Gustafson (translator)
Hope Campbell Gustafson’s previous book-length translations include Commander of the River by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah and Islands—New Islands: A Vagabond Guide to Rome by Marco Lodoli. From Minneapolis, now living in Brooklyn, she also works for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
The Bitter Water of the Lake
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The Bitter Water of the Lake£12.99
In the 1990s, Gaia’s family moves from the neglected peripheries of Rome to an idyllic lakeside town in search of a new life that will lift them out of poverty. Each of them bears their own scars: Gaia’s mother is fiercely determined to secure a better future for her children at any cost; her father, a once proud man, now suffers in bitter silence after a devastating accident; her anarchist older brother rebels against the political apathy he sees at home; and her young twin brothers wordlessly bear witness to a family in decay.
When Gaia meets two local girls, Agata and Carlotta, the trio builds a fragile friendship. Gaia’s encounters with callous boys and contemptuous teachers convince her that she might always be an outsider—excluded from a privileged life and beyond the possibility of happiness.
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