Nadia Terranova

Two stories converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria: a young woman sees a chance to avoid her impending arranged marriage and a boy manages to escape from the influence of an abusive mother on the verge of madness. This new award-winning novel is from Nadia Terranova, author of Farewell Ghosts, a finalist for the 2019 Premio Strega, and is translated by Ann Goldstein, who also was the translator of Elena Ferrante''s Neapolitan quartet. ''There is something stronger than pain, and that is habit.'' Eleven-year-old Nicola knows this well. Each night he is tied up in the cellar by his mother, the wife of Calabria''s biggest bergamot producer. There he waits for the sun to rise, and with it a sliver of freedom. On the other side of the sea, Barbara has just arrived in Messina and plans to escape her father, who pulls her towards marriage with a man she does not love. Liberty will be granted to both, but it will come at a very high price. On December 28th, 1908, the earth shakes. Europe''s most devastating earthquake razes the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria and, along with them, everything Nicola and Barbara have known. From the ruins, each must piece back together a life and start anew. Written in Nadia Terranova''s distinctively lyric style, The Night Trembles is a melancholic ode to human resilience and the promise of the unknown.

Dom medzi dvomi morami. Do jeho izieb sa vracia tridsaťšesťročná Ida, aby sa raz a navždy rozlúčila s prízrakmi svojho detstva a dospievania. Nadia Terranova rozpráva o posadnutosti stratou, o tom, ako nás minulosť ovládne, ak sa jej nepozrieme do očí. Na začiatku románu sa stretávame s Idou v sicílskom prístave Messina, kde sa narodila. Jej matka ju požiadala o pomoc pri oprave rodného domu, ktorý má v úmysle predať. Obklopená predmetmi z dávnych čias stojí pred dilemou, čo uchovať a čoho sa zbaviť, ako sa vyrovnať s traumou z detstva. Pred viac ako dvadsiatimi rokmi jej otec zmizol. Nezomrel: jedného dňa jednoducho odišiel a už sa nevrátil. So stratou otca si Ida spája zdrvujúce matkino mlčanie, svoju identitu a dokonca aj vzťah s vlastným manželom, ktorý je jej záchranou a skazou zároveň. V momente, keď ju rodný dom ovládne aj so svojimi prízrakmi, musí prelomiť kliatbu a dovoliť, aby jej otec nadobro odišiel z jej života aj vnútra.