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Graziella 'Lalla' Romano (1906-2001) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and visual artist. Initially more interested in painting, from the 1940s Romano turned increasingly to writing, publishing her first poetry collection in 1941. During World War II she returned to her home province of Cuneo and became involved with the partisans. Her first novel, Maria, was published in 1953, and she went on to become one of Italy's most renowned writers, earning the Pavese Prize and the Strega Prize before her death at the age of 94.Telling of wartime occupation, the lives of resistance fighters and a bleak, snow-covered countryside, its domestic and political tensions rival the best of Natalia Ginzburg
- Francesca Peacock, Spectator, Books of the Year
A marvel. All silence and noticing, glimpses and wonder. I've not read anything quite like it before
- Sunjeev Sahota, Booker Prize-longlisted author of China Room,
Her work deserves to be read alongside other titans of 20th-century Italian literature such as Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Pavese and Italo Calvino (all of whom knew and revered her)... Told with magnificent restraint, and without the tensions ever breaking the novel's serene, crystalline structure, A Silence Shared is a wonderful taste of Romano's work
Spectator
Romano writes in a dreamlike present, which is to say the present that appears to us in dreams... clear and full of shadows, concrete and out of reach
- Natalia Ginzburg,
Exquisite
Irish Times
When a book is praised by three of Italy's greatest 20th-century writers - Giorgio Bassani, Italo Calvino and Natalia Ginzburg - you pay attention... Through short scenes and spare dialogue, Romano successfully creates a mood of stasis, anticipation and guilt
Guardian
Thanks to this new translation... another unveiling of a great Italian writer is about to begin... Her writing fascinates because so much of it circles around how we construct and remember the lives we lead, those moments and elements that are mysterious and impossible to communicate
LA Review of Books
Successful to the point of perfection. There's not a word, not a sentence in the novel that doesn't add to the refined music-verging on silence-that's so characteristic of [Romano]
- Giorgio Bassani, author of 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis',
A subtle and captivating story, always right there... An incredibly complex and tough knot of human ties, [explored] with a heightened sensitivity that never falters
- Italo Calvino, author of 'If on a winter's night a traveller',
I was struck straightaway by the singular force of her taut, meditative, sorrowful writing... I admired her concise sentences, brief chapters, and distilled language
- Jhumpa Lahiri, author of 'The Namesake',
I adored A Silence Shared. It's a thoroughly hypnotic novel, full of beauty and sadness, written with such brilliance and meticulous care
- Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither,