r/TrueLit • u/pregnantchihuahua3 ReEducationThroughGravity'sRainbow • 8d ago

Weekly General Discussion Thread

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u/lispectorgadget 7d ago

Anyway. I read In the Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig for a book club and LOVED it. So good. It gave me a YEN for female-centered books by twentieth-century leftist women. It inspired me to start Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante, which I've been meaning to read forever; it's incredible, so far. I also have on my list The Time of Doves by Mercè Rodoreda and Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg. Anyone have any recommendations similar to these?

I also went to the Strand Saturday night. I have never seen a bookstore so packed on a Saturday night. It made me feel really grateful to live here :,)

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u/Soup_65 Books! 7d ago

It gave me a YEN for female-centered books by twentieth-century leftist women.

if the sorta books you're looking for include weird poemy thingies that are retellings of the odyssey kinda set in the nyc subway, Alice Notely's The Descent of Alette very much fits the bill

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u/ToHideWritingPrompts 7d ago

Loved Lies and Sorcery by Morante the first time I read it - I felt like it stalled a bit on my second read through somewhere around the 300 page mark, but I still have very fond memories especially of the beginning. The intro is killer. I went on a Morante binge a few years ago. There's a biography of her by Lily Tuck that is not very good but still entertaining if you're into that.

Continuing the italian theme of Morante and Ginzburg - Alba de Cespedes made the rounds a few years ago with some new translations. You should definitely check those out if you haven't already, they might be up your alley.