The anniversary

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Sinopse

'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I’ve changed phone numbers, houses, continents, I’ve erected an impregnable wall and put an ocean between us. They’ve been the best ten years of my life.'A son is celebrating a bittersweet anniversary. It is a decade since he saw his parents: the father who ruled through petty acts of intimidation and fear, the mother who silently accepted it, fitting herself in the spaces around others’ lives. As he looks back, he recalls the airless family home, unsettled only by the ringing of a telephone, or a visitor who was soon rejected. And he remembers how he became possessed by the irrepressible desire to be free, to live his own life. But can you ever escape the grip of your origins?At once unflinchingly honest and razor sharp, The Anniversary is above all a novel of liberation which dismantles the tyranny of the family. It becomes a mirror in which we glimpse something that, even if we have not known it, affects us all.

Participantes

Autor: Andrea Bajani

Tradutor: Geoffrey Brock

Autor

ANDREA BAJANI

Andrea Bajani nasceu em Roma em 1975. Hoje, vive em Houston, nos Estados Unidos, onde leciona escrita criativa na Universidade Rice. Como escritor, publicou os romances Se consideri le colpe (2007), Un bene al mondo (2016) e Il libro delle case (2021), além das coletâneas de poesia Promemoria (2017) e Dimora naturale (2017). Com seu último romance, O aniversário (Companhia das Letras, 2025), venceu o Prêmio Strega, a principal honraria literária da Itália.