{"product_id":"her-name-that-day-paperback","title":"Her Name That Day - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePietro Spirito\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMelinda Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eCharles Klopp\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiuliana Striano is forty years old and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of Italian emigrants with a daughter of her own, Renata, now five years old. Upon the death of her mother, Giuliana learns that she had been adopted and given a new identity with a different name and a different date and place of birth. So Giuliana determines to find out who she really is, what is hidden in her past, and who her birth parents were. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHer Name That Day\u003c\/i\u003e the story of \"another\" Italy set in a region that only recently became Italian and whose characters are Croatian, Slovenian, Australian, and South African, as well as Italians, precariously perched in a border community filled with secrets and scores to settle with History. Against this backdrop, the narrator endeavors to save a woman encountered by chance on the internet from becoming still another name without a history, another deracinated and disenchanted individual. In prose that is precise and engaging, as though shot through by a sense of pain both silent and inescapable, Pietro Spirito gives shape to an existential thriller in which there are neither guilty parties nor heroes, only victims and survivors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePIETRO SPIRITO is a journalist based in Trieste, Italy, where he is cultural editor for the city's leading newspaper, \u003ci\u003eIl Piccolo\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of twenty-two novels, short story collections, and other book-length volumes and of five film scripts. \u003ci\u003eHer Name That Day\u003c\/i\u003e is the first of his works to be published in English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMELINDA NELSON is an assistant vice provost at The Ohio State University, Columbus. She, with Charles Klopp, has translated three Italian novels. \u003cp\u003eCHARLES KLOPP is an emeritus professor of Italian at The Ohio State University, Columbus. He has authored, edited, or translated eight books in English and Italian as well as many articles, encyclopedia entries, and reviews. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePAMELA BALLINGER holds the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHistory in Exile \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 7.96 x 4.97 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525770416377,"sku":"9781978841338","price":37.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tcU64v5n699781978841338.webp?v=1790211077","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/her-name-that-day-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}