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Modern-day Naples is a city teeming with contradictions, a chaotic metropolis in which modernity collides with history, a frenetic port city whose inhabitants are as volatile and as contrary as the city itself. From this rough mix Valeria Parrella has drawn the four exceptional novellas that comprise For Grace Received. Here is a portrait of a Naples spanning past and present: the end of the era of tobacco smuggling and the unrestrained spread of hard drugs; the vivacity of the traditional extended family and the crushing solitude of countless anonymous loners; the fortitude of young men and women forced to make ends meet while their parents serve time, and the long, hard haul of single mothers as they attempt to bring up ...
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Overview

Modern-day Naples is a city teeming with contradictions, a chaotic metropolis in which modernity collides with history, a frenetic port city whose inhabitants are as volatile and as contrary as the city itself. From this rough mix Valeria Parrella has drawn the four exceptional novellas that comprise For Grace Received. Here is a portrait of a Naples spanning past and present: the end of the era of tobacco smuggling and the unrestrained spread of hard drugs; the vivacity of the traditional extended family and the crushing solitude of countless anonymous loners; the fortitude of young men and women forced to make ends meet while their parents serve time, and the long, hard haul of single mothers as they attempt to bring up their kids amidst violence and despair. In Valeria Parrella's Naples, life, love and happiness must all be pursued with passion, or not at all.

The stories in this collection represent some of the finest short fiction to have emerged from Italy in recent years. Winner of the 2005 Renato Fusini Prize, the 2006 Zerilli-Marimò Prize, and among the finalists for Italy's most prestigious literary award, The Strega, For Grace Received announces the English debut of a remarkable new literary talent.

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Publishers Weekly
The plucky women in Parrella's second collection of short stories populate a Naples tipping toward depravity. Recalling early Margaret Atwood, the Italian writer employs wry observations from a feminist perspective that isn't afraid of confronting darkness. In the opener, “Run,” narrator Anna uses a terse, sarcastic voice (“I went to the hospital to kill time”) to mask her desperation after she's left by her dead partner with a child and a job in the Naples drug trade. The second story (the only one not featuring a Neapolitan woman) follows a young man who gives up classical guitar and winds up working in a criminal print shop. In “Imaginary Friend,” a married art museum publicist starts a long-distance dalliance while dealing with her daughter's pesky invisible friend; the closing story finds the disarray of a young woman's apartment renovation rivals her love life for title of biggest fiasco. Weaving fully realized fringe characters into the complex pattern of society at large is no easy feat, though Parrella's American debut certainly makes it appear so. (Sept.)
Kirkus Reviews
Italian novelist Parrella makes her English-language debut with four stories set in Naples, her hometown. "Siddhartha" is the slight but engaging account of rough-and-tumble life in a family business, a print shop whose boss does time for mail fraud. Crime figures in three of the tales, and all but one are narrated by women threading their way through a complicated world. In "Run," Anna is a beautician living with Mario, a drug courier; the unmarried couple have an eight-year-old son, Tonino. The story opens with a precisely choreographed street scene. Mario is on foot, as is a total stranger who's flush with cash. A motorcycle roars up; the passenger stabs Mario in the back, then frisks him. An ambulance retrieves Mario; the stranger follows it to the hospital, where he meets Anna and Tonino. Mario dies; Anna is recruited into his business, gets caught, does time. What's memorable is not the mess of intrigue (Parrella omits two vital details from the opening), but Anna's blazing devotion to her son. Complications of a different sort drive "The Imaginary Friend." Marina, a museum curator, is married to a doctor; their small daughter has a constant companion, the eponymous friend. Marina has a long-distance friendship with Ernesto, another museum official, in the north. Fantasy, it seems, is not just the prerogative of children. Could this friendship be the "spare and exquisite" affair Marina desires? Teasing and unpredictable, a delayed disclosure is as important here as in "Run." The title story is less satisfying. The nameless narrator is a shop clerk pushing 40. Years ago, her life was transformed by her near-fatal decking of a young street thief who tried to snatch her cell phone; itended her relationship with her boyfriend and the neighborhood. Here the postponed revelation seems pointless, denying us a handle on the narrator's character. Piquant works in progress more than finished works of art.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933372945
  • Publisher: Europa Editions, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/25/2009
  • Pages: 144
  • Sales rank: 1,187,331
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Valeria Parrella was born in 1974 and lives in Naples. Since the publication in 2003 of her debut short story collection, Mosquito and Whale, she has been widely regarded as one of Italy's most exciting young authors. Parrella is also the author of the novels The White Space (2008) and The Verdict (2007).

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