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BUCHPREMIERE Messeschwerpunkt ITALIEN Maddalena Vaglio Tanet: In den Wald.
BOOK PREMIERE Trade fair focus ITALY Maddalena Vaglio Tanet: Into the forest.
Event by: Georg Büchner Buchladen, Suhrkamp Verlag
Location: Georg Büchner Buchladen GmbH, Wörther Straße 16, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
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Into the Forest is a dazzling novel about unspoken truths. With perfectly calibrated suspense, Maddalena Vaglio Tanet tells of a woman's fight against her ghosts - and of a forest that conjures up phantasms and heals wounds.
Translated from Italian by Annette Kopetzki
One morning the teacher disappears into the forest. As the classroom remains empty and her relatives search the streets and streams, she seems to merge more and more with the nature around her. Around them, boars roam through the undergrowth, and the songs of wild birds can be heard above the tops of the birch trees. She sinks deeper and deeper into a blanket of moss and memories - she must for all the world forget the tragic death of her favorite student, which drove her into the forest.
Behind the closed shutters and in the streets of the Piedmontese town of Biella is Meanwhile, you're at a loss: What happened to Silvia? And who is she really? The good-natured teacher everyone thinks she is, or an outsider with something to hide? When a boy from school comes across the teacher while wandering through the forest, the search seems to come to an end. But what do you do with a missing woman who doesn't want to be found?
Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, born in Biella, Italy, in 1985, is a literary scout and author. She published poems and children's books. Into the Forest is her acclaimed debut novel and was nominated for the Premio Strega. Tanet lives with her family in Maastricht.
Annette Kopetzki, born in Hamburg, has, among other things, Works by Edmondo De Amicis, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrea Camilleri, Erri De Luca and Roberto Saviano translated into German. In 2019 she was awarded the Paul Celan Prize for outstanding literary translations by the German Literature Fund.
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Translated from Italian by Annette Kopetzki
One morning the teacher disappears into the forest. As the classroom remains empty and her relatives search the streets and streams, she seems to merge more and more with the nature around her. Around them, boars roam through the undergrowth, and the songs of wild birds can be heard above the tops of the birch trees. She sinks deeper and deeper into a blanket of moss and memories - she must for all the world forget the tragic death of her favorite student, which drove her into the forest.
Behind the closed shutters and in the streets of the Piedmontese town of Biella is Meanwhile, you're at a loss: What happened to Silvia? And who is she really? The good-natured teacher everyone thinks she is, or an outsider with something to hide? When a boy from school comes across the teacher while wandering through the forest, the search seems to come to an end. But what do you do with a missing woman who doesn't want to be found?
Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, born in Biella, Italy, in 1985, is a literary scout and author. She published poems and children's books. Into the Forest is her acclaimed debut novel and was nominated for the Premio Strega. Tanet lives with her family in Maastricht.
Annette Kopetzki, born in Hamburg, has, among other things, Works by Edmondo De Amicis, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrea Camilleri, Erri De Luca and Roberto Saviano translated into German. In 2019 she was awarded the Paul Celan Prize for outstanding literary translations by the German Literature Fund.
VVK €13, AK €15