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Literary Fiction

LEZIONI DI TENEBRA

(Lessons of Darkness)

Ugo Guanda Editore, pp.208

A powerful and passionate autobiographical novel exploring inherited memory, identity and the enduring shadow of the Holocaust across generations.

Growing up in Germany as the daughter of Polish Jewish parents who survived the Shoah, Helena often felt like an outsider in German society and culture. Looking back on her life, she explores her relationship with her mother, shaping not only a memoir of the Holocaust, but a lucid account of its impact on the next generation.

That impact lies in the absence of roots, in a sense of linguistic dislocation, in the desperate need to belong, and in the persistent feeling of being an outsider, everywhere. It lies in a sense of bewilderment in the face of fate, of evil, and of what life brings.

Ugo Guanda Editore, pp.208

Helena Janeczek

Helena Janeczek was born in Munich in 1964 to a Jewish-Polish family. In 1983 she came to Italy, where she still lives. She is the author of a collection of poems in German and the novels Lezioni di tenebra (Mondadori 1997 – Premio Bagutta Opera Prima) republished by Guanda in 2011, Cibo (Mondadori 2002, republished by Guanda in 2019), Le rondini di Montecassino (The Swallows of Montecassino, Guanda 2010), finalist for the Premio Comisso and winner of the Premio Napoli, the Premio Sandro Onofri and the Premio Pisa. Her La ragazza con la Leica (The Girl with the Leica, 2018, over 180,000 copies sold) won the 2018 Strega Prize, the Bagutta Prize and the Premio Selezione Campiello.

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