Voices in the Evening

'A glowing light of modern Italian literature.' -- New York Times 'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' -- Lara Feigel, Guardian 'I did not know,' I said, 'that life could go at a run, with drums beating. For you, it is different. Your life, after I came into it, went on at its usual pace, without any sound.' In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her paren...