Thea Lenarduzzi The Tower review, recensie en informatie over de memoir en familiegeschiedenis. Op 9 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Fitzcarraldo Editions het tweede boek van Thea Lenarduzzi. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Thea Lenarduzzi The Tower review en recensie
- “Thea Lenarduzzi works against the grain of her own and readers’ expectations in this graceful book, in which stories are dismantled so that new truths can be found. Beautifully considered: The Tower is both delicate and wise.” (Anna Enright)
- “In her second remarkable and equally wise book, Lenarduzzi explores how we shape and share our stories – of ourselves and of others. Some are rooted in truth, others are constructed over generations of telling, and then there are those that relate to the depths of consciousness. She leads us with lyrical and meticulous prose via convincing digressions to an unexpected place to which I feel privileged to have journeyed.” (Julia Bueno)
- “The Tower is about the allure (and refusal) of certain narratives, about the sublime quest an author takes when she embarks on the act of storytelling. Its form – a composite of fiction, memoir, history – mirrors its subject matter and, excitingly, “stages” its very questions. In this elegantly composed, layered and expansive book, Thea Lenarduzzi articulates something of the mysterious nature of stories while also making an argument for all that is unknowable.” (Lauren Aimee)
The Tower
- Auteur: Thea Lenarduzzi
- Soort boek: familiegeschiedenis, memoir
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
- Omvang; 248 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de familiegeschiedenis van Thea Lenarduzzi
Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof – a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined to the tower by her father for three years and died there, alone. Fascinated by Annie’s story, Thea Lenarduzzi attempts to piece the past together in a formidable act of imagination, which, tugging at the strings of the how, why and who of stories, begins to unravel the very idea of storytelling itself.
Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, The Tower is an extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we don’t always tell the story we set out to tell.
Thea Lenarduzzi is a writer, broadcaster and editor. Her debut, Dandelions, a family memoir and cultural history of migration between Italy and England, won the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize and was shortlisted for the Ackerley Prize for ‘literary autobiography of outstanding merit’. The Tower is her second book.