General Fiction

La famiglia degli altri

(Other Peoples' Families)

Garzanti, February 2021, pp.252

A universally relevant story of female independence and family models that change over time.

Thirty-year-old Marta lives in Paris with her partner, Antoine. Together, they decide to build their relationship as a couple on freedom and trust, outside all conventions.

When she has to return to Padua, her home town, after the sudden death of her grandmother, who embodied a female role model as wife and mother with anachronistic perfection, Marta finds herself immersed in a family and social atmosphere that prompts her to question her certainties.

Behind the façade of middle-class decency, errors, conflicts and secrets begin to surface and she realises that perhaps no family is perfect but that each one is imperfect in its own way. Only by accepting this truth can Marta really mature.

Garzanti, February 2021, pp.252

  • “A successful journey in the unconfessed depths of social conventions, family contradictions, false truths and improbable existential answers.”

    Lorenzo Marotta, La Sicilia

Elena Rui

Elena Rui (1980) has been living in France for fifteen years. In Albi, Toulouse and Paris, she has taught Italian, been a translator and edited commercial publications. She is characterised by her passion for writing and pastry-making, two different ways of being creative. La famiglia degli altri is her debut novel.

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