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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The quality of the translation and the selection of well-known and lesser-known stories makes this a welcome addition to earlier collections available in English...There is something strikingly modern about Pirandello's self-reflexivity...which speaks to our times of endless self-making and remaking.”—Ann Hallamore Caesar,
Times Literary SupplementLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose, sponsored by The American Literary Translators Association
"Virginia Jewiss opens up many of Pirandello's rich, humorous, tragic, always engaging and surprising worlds in these trenchant and entertaining stories."—Jonathan Galassi
“Pirandello is a master of the beguiling story that packs a frightening punch."—Tim Parks, author of
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo“The visionary dramatist Luigi Pirandello was also a masterful spinner of short stories that are steeped in the salt sea, bitter herbs, and ancient passions of his native Sicily. Virginia Jewiss captures the biting edge of Pirandello’s irony with perfect pitch.”—Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame
“The greatest short fiction begins with narrative and moves effortlessly into archetype, achieving in a small compass an epiphany about what is quintessentially human. Jewiss has rendered Pirandello's epiphanies faithfully and triumphantly.”—Karl Kirchwey, Boston University
