Follow Your Heart

Susanna Tamaro, Avril Bardoni

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Italian

Vintage
01 September 1996

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Winner of the Premio Donna Citta di Roma 1994 and an international bestseller, this is a profoundly moving and beautifully crafted meditation on existence.

Driven by the fear of encroaching death, an elderly woman describes to a write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love letter and part confession, it is most importantly a bequest from an old woman at last brave enough to acknowledge that she has too long repressed her feelings and submitted to convention. Reliving everything that has happened to her she seeks to remind her granddaughter that the one worthwhile journey in life to the centre of oneself, in search of that original voice we all guard deep inside.

By: Susanna Tamaro
Translated by: Avril Bardoni
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 127g
ISBN: 9780749396978
ISBN 10: 0749396970
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 September 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Susanna Tamaro was born in Trieste in 1957 and is the author of Follow Your Heart.

Reviews for Follow Your Heart

This wan roman, whose hortatory pleading never rises beyond the level of Know Thyself, is an obvious entry in the Having Our Say/Bridges of Madison County sweepstakes. It comprises a serial letter of advice, written between one mid-November and Christmas, by Olga, an old Italian woman, for her fugitive granddaughter in America. In it, Olga describes her own thwarted intellectual hunger, unhappy marriage, gratifying adultery, and traumatic loss of her only daughter - all the while admonishing the daughter's daughter to be her own woman (which, essentially, she's already doing). The best that can be said for this sententious offertory of feminine wisdom is that it's smoothly written and translated and its bromides go down easily. Follow Your Heart won Italy's Premio Donna Citta di Roma in 1994. Che sara sara. (Kirkus Reviews)