A Silence Shared

Praise

 “Thanks to this new translation… another unveiling of a great Italian writer is about to begin… Her writing fascinates because so much of it circles around how we construct and remember the lives we lead, those moments and elements that are mysterious and impossible to communicate.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books

“Her work deserves to be read alongside other titans of 20th-century Italian literature such as Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Pavese and Italo Calvino (all of whom knew and revered her)… Told with magnificent restraint, and without the tensions ever breaking the novel’s serene, crystalline structure, A Silence Shared is a wonderful taste of Romano’s work.”
—The Spectator

“When a book is praised by three of Italy’s greatest 20th-century writers – Giorgio Bassani, Italo Calvino and Natalia Ginzburg – you pay attention… through short scenes and spare dialogue, Romano successfully creates a mood of stasis, anticipation and guilt.”
–The Guardian

“Reading this beguiling book was not unlike watching light and shadow complicate the surface of a still, deep pool of summer water. Hats off to Brian Robert Moore for the stunning translation.”
–Sunjeev Sahota, Lithub

“Exquisite.”
–Irish Times

“Romano writes in a dreamlike present, which is to say the present that appears to us in dreams… clear and full of shadows, concrete and out of reach.”
–Natalia Ginzburg

“A subtle and captivating story… An incredibly complex and tough knot of human ties, [explored] with a heightened sensitivity that never falters.”
–Italo Calvino