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Enchantments
Linda Ferri
Translated by John Casey with Maria Sanminiatelli
#UA2552
Hardcover, 131 pages; 2005
$18.95
One day a girl joined my class, and her hair was even longer and curlier than mine. I began a conversation by asking her, "Does it hurt you too when someone combs the knots out of your hair?" To impress her I said, without waiting for her answer, "Tomorrow I'm getting mine completely shaved off." She looked so terrified that I liked her immediately.
An affectingly beautiful new novel from Italy, Enchantments reads as the diary of a winsome little girl. The unnamed young narrator--a child of wealthy Italian parents, living in France in the1960s--discloses her thoughts and experiences in an innocent, yet engagingly astute, voice. By the end of the novel, intimations of sexuality and the tragic death of a loved one have marked the end of childhood.
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