Francesca Manfredi
Francesca Manfredi was born in Reggio Emilia in 1988 and lives in Turin, Italy. Her debut short story collection, Un buon posto dove stare, won the Premio Campiello Opera Prima and was shortlisted for the Premio Settembrini, Premio Chiara, Premio Berto and Premio Zocca Giovani. Her short stories appear in several contemporary Italian magazines, collections, and in the Japanese anthology Somewhere, in a safe place. In 2019 she published her first novel, L’impero della polvere (The Empire of Dirt).
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Chlorine
Translated from the Italian by Lucy Rand Lidia and Alberto decided to have lunch in the garden that Sunday. They had moved recently. A new residential area just outside the city: four three-story buildings, all the same, the last still to be finished. The apartments on the ground floor opened onto a private garden, […]