Literary Fiction

Io sono del mio amato

(I am my Beloved's)

Astoria Edizioni , March 2024, pp.240

Love, war and the choices that determine the fate of an ultra-Orthodox family in a story that straddles the tragedy of the Shoah and the contradictions of modern Israel.

A comparison between two generations, a grandfather and a grandson, between tradition and modernity.

Chaim and Levi, grandfather and grandson, live in contemporary Jerusalem and belong to an ultra-Orthodox family. Their stories unfold between past and present, and tales of the Second World War and the horror of the Shoah intersect with those of everyday events in a staunchly practising family. The tradition and modernity they both represent inevitably clash when Levi falls in love with a young female soldier who smokes, wears trousers and can’t cook. Past and present reflect each other, war and peace merge, and they quickly discover how unfair the dictates of religion can be and how it is sometimes necessary to deviate from the imposed norms. Moreover, the future is about to bring new challenges.

Astoria Edizioni , March 2024, pp.240

  •  “Emdin very skilfully develops the plot through a clever interplay between past and present.”

    La Nazione

  • “In addition to the clever, engaging structure of the novel, Emdin brings to the surface some important issues concerning identity and belonging, questions that echo the wonderful novels of Chaim Potok.”

    Avvenire

  • “A crystal-clear novel (…) Emdin isn’t even thirty and she is already firmly in command of her writing.”

    Il Piccolo

  • “[…] the merit of this novel is to take us back to the duty of writing: to tell a story and keep us gripped until the final page […].”

    “A debut (…) with enviable energy, so rarely found in contemporary Italian literature, which is all too often busy decorating teapots or lingering on stylistic delicacies – there’s no trace of those here.”

    Marco Archetti, Il Foglio

Annick Emdin

Annick Emdin was born in Pisa in 1991, graduated in stage performance studies and obtained a master’s degree in scriptwriting and dramaturgy at the Accademia Silvio D’Amico. She is a writer, dramaturge, theatre director and scriptwriter.

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