{"product_id":"the-hunger-of-women-paperback","title":"The Hunger of Women - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarosia Castaldi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJamie Richards\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRosa, midway\u003cbr\u003ethrough life, is alone. Her husband passed away long ago, and her cosmopolitan\u003cbr\u003edaughter is already out the door, keen to marry and move to the city. At loose\u003cbr\u003eends, Rosa decides to transplant herself to the flat, foggy Lombardy provinces\u003cbr\u003efrom her native Naples and there finds a way to renew herself--by opening a\u003cbr\u003erestaurant, and in the process coming to a new appreciation of the myriad\u003cbr\u003erelationships possible between women, from friendship to caregiving to\u003cbr\u003ecollaboration to emotional and physical love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnconventional in style and yet rivetingly\u003cbr\u003eaccessible, \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger of Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel infused with the pleasures of\u003cbr\u003ethe body and the little shocks of daily life. Made up of Rosa's observations, \u003cbr\u003ereflections, and recipes, it tracks her mental journey back to reconnect with\u003cbr\u003eher own embattled mother's age-old wisdom, forward to her daughter's\u003cbr\u003einconceivable future, and laterally to the world of Rosa's new community of\u003cbr\u003elovers and customers. A tribute not only to the tradition of women's writing on\u003cbr\u003ehearth and home but to the legacy of such boundary-breaking feminist writers as\u003cbr\u003eGertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and H駘鈩e Cixous, \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger of Women\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003cbr\u003enothing less than a literary feast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarosia\u003cbr\u003eCastaldi\u003c\/b\u003e, born in 1951, was a Neapolitan\u003cbr\u003ewriter and artist who spent most of her life in Milan, where she died in 2019.\u003cbr\u003eHer degree, from the University of Naples, was in philosophy, and after moving\u003cbr\u003eto Milan in 1971, she studied art at the Brera Academy. She exhibited work in\u003cbr\u003egalleries across Europe and in the US and taught creative writing seminars at\u003cbr\u003ethe Scuola Holden in Turin and Lalineascritta in Naples. Her extraordinary and\u003cbr\u003eexperimental literary oeuvre includes the short story collections \u003ci\u003eAbbastanza\u003cbr\u003eprossimo\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eCasa idiota\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), \u003ci\u003ePiccoli\u003cbr\u003epaesaggi\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), the prose collection \u003ci\u003eIn mare aperto\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003cbr\u003ethe theatrical text \u003ci\u003eCalco\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and the novels \u003ci\u003eFermata\u003cbr\u003ekm 501\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003ePer quante vite\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eChe\u003cbr\u003echiamiamo anima\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eDava fine alla tremenda notte \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), \u003ci\u003eIl\u003cbr\u003edio dei corpi\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and the monumental \u003ci\u003eDentro le mie mani le\u003cbr\u003etue. Tetralogia di Nightwater\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, her\u003cbr\u003efirst book to appear in English, was nominated for the Strega Prize in\u003cbr\u003e2012.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Richards\u003c\/b\u003e is an\u003cbr\u003eAmerican translator of Italian literature. She has translated books by Viola di\u003cbr\u003eGrado, Roberto Saviano, Igiaba Scego, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Manuele Fior, and\u003cbr\u003eothers. A 2021 NEA fellow, her work has appeared in numerous periodicals online\u003cbr\u003eand in print. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of\u003cbr\u003eIowa and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44327454572646,"sku":"9781913505868","price":27.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Il25cJd2Q19781913505868.webp?v=1768272661","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-hunger-of-women-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}