Domenico Starnone

Trust

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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2021

Following the international success of Ties and the National Book Award-shortlisted Trick, Domenico Starnone gives readers another searing portrait of human relationships and human folly.

Pietro and Teresa’s love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet another terrible argument, she gets an idea: they should tell each other something they’ve never told another person, something they’re too ashamed to tell anyone. They will hear the other’s confessions without judgment and with love in their hearts. In this way, Teresa thinks, they will remain united forever, more intimately connected than ever.

A few days after sharing their shameful secrets, they break up. Not long after, Pietro meets Nadia, falls in love, and proposes. But the shadow of the secret he confessed to Teresa haunts him, and Teresa herself periodically reappears, standing at the crossroads, it seems, of every major moment in his life. Or is it he who seeks her out?

A master storyteller and a novelist of the highest order, Starnone’s gaze is trained unwaveringly on the fault lines in our public personas and the complexities of our private selves. Trust asks how much we are willing to bend to show the world our best side, knowing full well that when we are at our most vulnerable we are also at our most dangerous.
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177 printed pages
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
Translator
Jhumpa Lahiri
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    The end of the poem reads: “quod amantem iniuria talis / cogit amare magis, sed bene velle minus.” (My English translation would be: “because such harm / drives the lover to love more, but like less,” though Francis Warre Cornish’s prose translation reads: “Because such an injury as this drives a lover to be more of a lover, but less of a friend”

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