'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph
'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' Natalia Ginzburg
The first unabridged English translation of the electrifying novel of secrets and delusions, from one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.
Elisa – orphaned as a child, raised by a ‘fallen woman’, fed by fairy tales – has lived in an outlandish imaginary world for years. When her guardian dies, she feels compelled to confront her family’s tortured and dramatic past, weaving the tale of her mother and grandmother through a history of intrigue, treachery, deception and desire. But as her saga of three generations of Sicilian women proceeds, it becomes something else entirely, taking in a whole legacy of oppression and injustice. By turns flamboyant and intense, raging and funny, Lies and Sorcery is a celebration of the female imagination, and the power of storytelling itself.
First published in 1948, Elsa Morante’s debut novel won the Viareggio Prize and earned her the lasting admiration of generations of writers from Italo Calvino and Natalia Ginzburg to Elena Ferrante.
Translated by Jenny McPhee
WINNER OF THE ALTA 2024 ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE 2024
"Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel" - Telegraph
"Spellbinding, exquisite . . . Morante creates something truly modern: a novel about the power of stories and storytelling, both seductive and corrupting . . . every bit as exhilarating to read now as it must have been radical to encounter nearly 80 years ago" - Financial Times
"A triumph: a fairy tale of epic proportions and a rightly rediscovered 20th-century classic" - Spectator
"What a thrill that this wild, evocative, compelling novel is at long last fully available in English. Its vivid depictions of how class both imprisons and distorts a person’s sense of self is powerful . . . Lies and Sorcery is a fairy tale with no need for fairies or magic" - New Statesman
"Each plot development is surrounded by acres of commentary whose richness and intensity — deep, dense, psychologically penetrating — provides the story with transformative values, converts melodrama into metaphor" - The New York Times
"[Lies and Sorcery] is a work of wild abundance and inexhaustible psychological depth....[it] evokes the passage from a traditional society steeped in the values of collectiveness and belonging to one obsessed with power, with the idea that an individual need only impose their will to have what they want....Elsa Morante’s is, undeniably, a grim vision of the world; yet to read Lies and Sorcery in this heroic new translation by Jenny McPhee, always admirably attentive to the original’s delicate balance between archaism and fluency, is exhilarating throughout" - TLS
"A social epic tinged with fabulism and written in a sensual and highly ornate prose . . . a writer of conscience, and of brilliance besides" - The Washington Post
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'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' Natalia Ginzburg
The first unabridged English translation of the electrifying novel of secrets and delusions, from one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.
Elisa – orphaned as a child, raised by a ‘fallen woman’, fed by fairy tales – has lived in an outlandish imaginary world for years. When her guardian dies, she feels compelled to confront her family’s tortured and dramatic past, weaving the tale of her mother and grandmother through a history of intrigue, treachery, deception and desire. But as her saga of three generations of Sicilian women proceeds, it becomes something else entirely, taking in a whole legacy of oppression and injustice. By turns flamboyant and intense, raging and funny, Lies and Sorcery is a celebration of the female imagination, and the power of storytelling itself.
First published in 1948, Elsa Morante’s debut novel won the Viareggio Prize and earned her the lasting admiration of generations of writers from Italo Calvino and Natalia Ginzburg to Elena Ferrante.
Translated by Jenny McPhee
WINNER OF THE ALTA 2024 ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE 2024
"Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel" - Telegraph
"Spellbinding, exquisite . . . Morante creates something truly modern: a novel about the power of stories and storytelling, both seductive and corrupting . . . every bit as exhilarating to read now as it must have been radical to encounter nearly 80 years ago" - Financial Times
"A triumph: a fairy tale of epic proportions and a rightly rediscovered 20th-century classic" - Spectator
"What a thrill that this wild, evocative, compelling novel is at long last fully available in English. Its vivid depictions of how class both imprisons and distorts a person’s sense of self is powerful . . . Lies and Sorcery is a fairy tale with no need for fairies or magic" - New Statesman
"Each plot development is surrounded by acres of commentary whose richness and intensity — deep, dense, psychologically penetrating — provides the story with transformative values, converts melodrama into metaphor" - The New York Times
"[Lies and Sorcery] is a work of wild abundance and inexhaustible psychological depth....[it] evokes the passage from a traditional society steeped in the values of collectiveness and belonging to one obsessed with power, with the idea that an individual need only impose their will to have what they want....Elsa Morante’s is, undeniably, a grim vision of the world; yet to read Lies and Sorcery in this heroic new translation by Jenny McPhee, always admirably attentive to the original’s delicate balance between archaism and fluency, is exhilarating throughout" - TLS
"A social epic tinged with fabulism and written in a sensual and highly ornate prose . . . a writer of conscience, and of brilliance besides" - The Washington Post
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