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Books by Adria Bernardi |
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Fiction |
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Benefit Street: A Novel
Adria Bernardi
Cover art: detail of kilim fragment, central Anatolia, 1800, The George Washington
University Museum and The Textile Museum. Used by permission.
learn more - how to purchase The University of Alabama Press
Adria Bernardi's Benefit Street is a marvel to read. It is a book about people and the
social networks they weave. It is a book about cities and how cities anchor those
networks. Finally, it is about the tapestry of relationships cities, large and small,
foster, regardless of ethnic and religious background.
– Pablo Medina, author of The Cuban Comedy: A Novel
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Openwork: A Novel
Cover art: “Backyard: Chicago (wire)” by Ann Worthing
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Southern Methodist University Press
“In prose as radiant and emotionally precise as Virginia Woolf’s, Bernardi illuminates the working lives and longings of coal miners and wet-nurses, seamstresses, stone masons, and housewives, brilliantly rendering a century in the life of an Italian-American family.”
– Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel and The Air We Breathe |
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The Day Laid on the Altar
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University of New England Press / Plume
“This exquisitely crafted novel. . . seamlessly interweaves three stories into a superb evocation of sixteenth century Italy. . . A reflective tale of art and spiritual survival.”
– Margaret Flanagan, Booklist
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In the Gathering Woods
Cover art: "Sui Generis" © 1999 by Ann Worthing
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University of Pittsburgh Press
“Craft and imagination distinguish this short-story cycle about a long bloodline originating in a remote Italian mountain village. . . Her distinctive technique, both panoramic and pointillist, has a unique power to make visible minor ancestral inheritances that time tends to rub out.”
– Laura Demanksi, Chicago Tribune |
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Nonfiction |
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Dead Meander
Cover art: “Am” © 2005–2006 by Ann Worthing
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Kore Press
Each essay is a fragment of memory that twines forward and back in time, place, birth and death,...
– Eve Rifkah, author of The Penikese Island Leper Hospital: 1905–1921 |
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Translation |
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The Rings of the Universe
Selected Poems
Ubaldo de Robertis
Translation © 2016 by Adria Bernardi.
Italian text © Ubaldo de Robertis.
Cover art: Acruto Vitali (1903–1990), Tastiere (Linguaggio dell'Universo) / Keyboards
(The Language of the Universe), 1963.
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Chronic Hearing
Selected Poems 1977-2012
Cristina Annino
Translated by Adria Bernardi
Cover art: “L’udito cronico: l’universo è questa foglia che mi tocca la testa”
© 2006 by Cristina Annino
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The first reading keeps us on the page as if it’s magnetized...
– Nadia Agustoni |
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Chernobylove
The Day After the Wind
Francesca Pellegrino
Selected Poems 2008-2010
selected, edited, and translated by Adria Bernardi
Cover art: “Soffio” © Paola Aloisio
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If you look at each single word, you'll find a flinch in it, a sudden nervous twitch that makes it new and gives it a forcefulness all its own.
– Gianmario Lucini |
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Siren's Song: Selected Poetry and Prose 1989-2009
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Rinaldo Caddeo
Translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi
Cover art © by Salvatore Carbone
Chelsea Editions
“A poetry for brain shocks, visions and encounters with elemental emblems of time and being: the moth, the bat, the infant, the statue, the tree, the hare, the leaf, the wind.”
– Giorgio Barberi-Squarotti |
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Small Talk
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Raffaello Baldini
Translated from romagnole dialect by Adria Bernardi
Cover art “La solitudine del venditore di pallone” © 1968 by Guilio Turci
Gradiva Publications
poetry
"Each translation manages to create a true 'character' — a persona through which we can hear the living sound of this bustling, crowded, factually packed, local life. In this, (Bernardi) performs with great effect the true ‘bringing-over’ task of the translator."
– Geoffry Brock |
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Page Proof
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Raffaello Baldini
Edited and Introduction by Daniele Benati
Translated from the romagnole dialect by Adria Bernardi
Bordighera Press
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Adventures in Africa
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Gianni Celati
Translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi
The University of Chicago Press
account of Gianni Celati’s journey through Senegal, Mali and Mauritania
“(Adventures in Africa) is, like all the best traveler’s books, not a tourist book but a book of self-transport, self-investigation, self-transfiguration. That this ‘tourist’ has the nose, eyes, ears, curiosity, endurance, common sense and uncommon literary power to experience and then verbalize sights, sounds and odors, makes the book a good one to take on a trip to Mali, Mauritania and Senegal.”
– Richard Stern |
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Abandoned Places
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Tonino Guerra
translated from the romagnole dialect by Adria Bernardi
poetry
“. . . full of humor, harshness, loveliness, startling imagery, political consciousness and humanity. . . Guerra’s imagery, narrative and sense of timing — and Bernardi’s, in translation — produce stunning poems in English.”
– Daisy Fried |
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Nonfiction |
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Houses with Names: The Italian Immigrants of Highwood, Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
“the gift of history alive”
– Studs Terkel |
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