Snow, Dog, Foot
by Claudio Morandini
£12.00
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Adelmo Farandola doesn’t like people. In summer he roams the valleys of the Italian alps, his only company a talkative, cantankerous old dog and a young mountain ranger who, Adelmo Farandola suspects, is spying on him.
When winter comes, man and dog are snowed in. With stocks of wine and bread depleted, they pass the time squabbling over scraps, debating who will eat the other first.
Spring brings a more sinister discovery that threatens to break Adelmo Farandola’s already faltering grip on reality: a man’s foot poking out of the receding snow.
Translated from the Italian by J Ockenden
128pp, paperback with flaps, £12
ISBN 978-1-908670-56-4
Publication date: 15 February 2020
Press & Reviews
'Wonderful, funny, moving and unforgettable.' - Charlie Connelly, The New European
'A remarkable depiction of an old man's descent from self-reliance into madness.' - Amanda Craig, Author
'The book frequently plays with our expectations and throws us off balance ... Morandini takes us through a range of emotions, often amusing us and unsettling us on the same page.' - Malcolm Forbes, The Herald
'Claudio Morandini writes of the icy extravagant oblivion where things lose their contours and memories become indistinguishable from the imagination.' - Georgia Vasta, Il Venerdi di Repubblica
'Morandini leads us into the labyrinths of his protagonist's mind.' - Demetrio Paolin, Il Foglio
'This is a charming and thoughtful story...it throws in a few curveballs and there is a low key, wry humour that underpins this engaging, well written (and beautifully translated) story.' - TripFiction
About The Book
Translator
J Ockenden is a translator, journalist, broadcaster, poet and winner of the 2019 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. After entering the prize with a translation of the first chapter, J was awarded a writer's retreat in the Pyrenees, where the work was completed. This is J's first full-length literary translation.
