The Round Dance : : A Novel / / Carmine Abate.

• VerfasserIn: Abate, Carmine,
• MitwirkendeR: Altimari, Francesco,; La Luna, Michelangelo,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Other Voices of Italy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 0 figures

The village of Hora is a magical place that blurs the boundaries between a mythical past and the present. It is here that Costantino Avati grows alongside his impetuous and melancholic father, Francesco; his mother, Elena, who hides a secret torment; his two sisters, Orlandina and Lucrezia; and his grandfather Lissandro, the last custodian of an era and a world that are disappearing. As Costantino feels the pangs of first love with the intriguing Roman Isabella, he also discovers the romantic allure of his own village and its rich cultural heritage. In his first novel, acclaimed author Carmine Abate transforms his Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) hometown of Carfizzi, Calabria, into a magical realist wonderland that rivals Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo. Inspired by the oral traditions of the old Albanian bards and incorporating the poetic local dialect, The Round Dance is a unique piece of multicultural literature that was named by the publishing house Mondadori as one of the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Memory and Identity Performance in the Imagined “Hora” of Albanians of Italy or Arbëreshë -- Translator’s Note -- ~ Lojmë lojmë, vasha, vallen ~ -- Inroduction -- Prologue -- Një -- Dy -- Tre -- Katër -- Pesë -- Gjashtë -- Shtatë -- Tetë -- Nëndë -- Dhjetë -- Eleven -- Vú spërvjeret Skandërbeku -- Introduction -- Viatrice delle fate -- The Green-Eyed Partridge -- The Smallest White Castle in the World -- The Little Ladies and the Bored Little Soldier -- The Round Dance -- Skanderbeg’s Bust -- The Christmas Hearth -- The Fake Mericano -- Zëmërgùri -- Two Fingers of Honor on the Forehead -- Ish një jëmë shumë e mirë -- Introduction -- Twelve -- Thirteen -- Fourteen -- Fifteen -- Sixteen -- Seventeen -- Eighteen -- Nineteen -- Twenty -- Twenty-one -- Shkoi një ditë mjegullore -- Introduction -- The Final Vallja -- Author’s Note -- Notes on Contributors