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Elena Varvello

Biography

Elena Varvello

Elena Varvello was born in Turin, Italy, in 1971. She has published two collections of poetry, PERSEVERANZA ? SALUTARE and ATLANTI; a collection of short stories, L'ECONOMIA DELLE COSE (nominated for the Premio Strega, the Italian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize); and a novel, LA LUCE PERFETTA DEL GIORNO. She teaches creative writing at the Scuola Holden in Turin. CAN YOU HEAR ME? is her first novel to be published in English.

Elena Varvello

Books by Elena Varvello

Can You Hear Me?
by Elena Varvello - Fiction

A young boy is murdered, shaking a small community to its core. A girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods. Elia Furenti is 16, living in a secluded house with his parents in Ponte, Northern Italy, a life so unremarkable that even unhappiness has been accepted as normal. Elia's father lost his job, and now he begins to lose himself in the darkest corners of his mind. Then a new friend arrives in Ponte, firmly propelling Elia to the edge of adulthood, and everything starts to unravel.