The Missing Word by Concita De Gregorio, translated by Clarissa Botsford
04 Aug, by in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Italian, Repost, Translation
Widower, widow. Uxoricide. Orphan. Patricide. Infanticide. And yet missing from that harrowing vocabulary is a word for “parents who lose children. Who don’t murder them, but lose them.” Irina becomes that kind of grieving parent when her 6-year-old daughters vanish. She’s recently separated from husband Mathias,...