IN FARTHEST SEAS

A sharply beautiful and moving masterpiece about love and death by the classic Italian author of A Silence Shared Upon the death of her husband Innocenzo Monti Lalla Romano sought to distil the essence of their long life together The result was In Farthest Seas a piercingly intimate retelling of the first four years and final four months of their relationship built from shard like moments of connection and revelation With precise artistry Romano braids together seemingly minor details the expressiveness of Innocenzo s hands the beauty of his face in sleep a fleeting instance of pallor that come to reveal the barest truths of life and death Unsparing yet tender minimal yet monumental In Farthest Seas is a startlingly moving elegy for a great love by a vital Italian writer Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series timeless storytelling by icons of literature hand picked from around the globe Translated by Brian Robert Moore Lalla Romano 1906 2001 was an Italian novelist poet translator and visual artist Initially more active as a painter from the 1940s Romano turned increasingly to writing publishing her first poetry collection in 1941 During the Second World War she returned to her home province of Cuneo and became involved with the partisans