Adua
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Adua, an immigrant from Somalia to Italy, has lived in Rome for nearly forty years. She came seeking freedom from a strict father and an oppressive regime, but her dreams of becoming a film star ended in shame. Now that the civil war in Somalia is over, her homeland beckons. Yet Adua has a husband who needs her, a young man, also an immigrant, who braved a dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. When her father, who worked as an interpreter for Mussolini’s fascist regime, dies, Adua inherits the family home. She must decide whether to make the journey back to reclaim her material inheritance, but also how to take charge of her own story and build a future.
Original Title in Italian, Adua, published by Giunti (2015)
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Jamie
Richards
Jamie Richards is a distinguished translator of Italian literature. She received a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant, was the Spring 2023 Translator-in-Residence at the University of Iowa and judged the 2023 Italian Prose in Translation Award. In 2024, her translation of Marosia Castaldi’s The Hunger of Women won the National Translation Award in Prose, was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and shortlisted for the Italian Prose in Translation Award.
Jamie Richards is a distinguished translator of Italian literature. She received a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant, was the Spring 2023 Translator-in-Residence at the University of Iowa and judged the 2023 Italian Prose in Translation Award. In 2024, her translation of Marosia Castaldi’s The Hunger of Women won the National Translation Award in Prose, was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and shortlisted for the Italian Prose in Translation Award.