Tell Me About It

Nives is a widower from Tuscany. She just lost her husband after 50 years of marriage. Now that she is alone, she lets one hen, called Giacomina, into the house. This way, Nives can sleep again. One evening, after Giacomina stays paralyzed after watching a TV commercial, she calls the local veterinary to help her hen. But soon, this telephone call turns in a different direction, and Nives talks about their youth years and all their friends. This phone call, in the end, turns into a pretty gossipy conversation. Nives reveals some juicy details from the lives of people they both know. This simple conversation lasts for several hours, and suddenly, it is in the middle of the night.

Tell Me About It is a short and easy read that was quirky and interesting enough to keep me reading. A novella was a pleasant surprise from Italian writer Sacha Naspini.

Tell Me About It is a UK edition of Nives.

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Details:

• author: Sacha Naspini
  
• full title: Tell Me About It
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
  
• country: italy
  
• topics: #phonecall, #gossip
  
• publisher: Europa Editions (UK)
  
• publish date: 02.06.2022
  
• pages: 140

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙

Excerpt from the Book:

About the Author:

 

Sacha Naspini was born in 1976 in Grosseto, a town in Southern Tuscany. He has worked as an editor, art director, and screenwriter, and is the author of numerous novels and short stories which have been translated into several languages. Nives is his first novel to appear in English.