Bøger af Diego Marani

»Forbløffende og storartet roman.« Weekendavisen»Et uhyre ambitiøst stykke litteratur ... Som læser forelsker man sig ret hurtigt i den ubærlige historie ... Min læseoplevelse rører på sig og kan mærkes fra hårrødderne langt ud i storetåen forstærket af det tragiske plot på romanens sidste sider.« ★★★★★☆Politiken»Denne roman er storslået litteratur om sproget som kernen i menneskets eksistens, i kulturen og i hele den store fortælling, som udgør verden.« ★★★★★☆Fyns Stiftstidende»Bliv ikke afskrækket af den ugæstfrie titel – det her er en fantastisk bog.«The SpectatorItalien, Trieste, 1943. En mand bliver fundet bevidstløs på havnen. Da han kommer til bevidsthed, har han mistet både sin hukommelse og sit sprog. Eneste spor til hans identitet er navnet på den blå sømandsjakke, han bærer, Sampo Karjalainen, og et lommetørklæde med initialerne SK. Lægen, der tilser manden, antager – måske grundet sin egen finske baggrund – at han må være finne. Hans teori er, at manden vil genfinde sin hukommelse, hvis han kommer til Helsinki. En stærk roman om sprog og identitet, om krigens galskab og kærlighedens nødvendighed.

A young man plunges into student life, in flight from an overbearing father, in search of an identity of his own making. He is like everyone else in his quest for a future he cannot yet understand. His experiences, often comic, always innocently human, are an exploration of the concept of boundaries. But in choosing to study in Trieste, a city of many-layered histories and ethnicities, a city of brilliant sunshine and ferocious gales, he finds that life, and love, throw him more questions than answers. It is a tale of Everyman, but more than that: in the hands of Diego Marani, author of the celebrated New Finnish Grammar, this wry and affecting novel leads the reader on a nostalgic and thought-provoking journey made wholly individual by its evocation of place - the celestial city of Trieste. 'I did not think that one could weep for a city. But at that time I did not know that cities are women, one can fall in love with them and never forget them.'

Domingo Salazar is a Dominican monk and Vatican secret agent in a near future theocratic Italy ruled by the Vatican. A cell of dissidents is helping sufferers commit euthanasia. His job is to root out such non-believers and heretics.

The Last of the Vostyachs won two literary prizes in Italy: The Premio Campiello and The Premio Stresa. As a child, Ivan and his father work as forced labourers in a mine in Siberia, the father having committed some minor offence against the regime. Ivan's father is then murdered in front of his young son, after which Ivan -- who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is the last remaining speaker -- is struck dumb by what he has witnessed. Some twenty years later the guards desert their posts and Ivan walks free, together with the other inmates. Guided by some mysterious power, he returns to the region he originally came from...