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Francesca Melandri

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Rome, Italy

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Francesca Melandri was born in Rome in 1964. She started writing very young, working first as a screenwriter, and has worked on films and television series, as well as a number of prize winning documentaries.

In 2010 she published her first novel, 'Eva dorme' ("Eva Sleeps"), set in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria, a sweeping story about family, forgiveness, conflict and the search for truth. The novel, which won several literary prizes in 2010 and 2011, has been translated in German, Dutch, French and English.

Melandri's second novel, 'Più alto del mare', was published in 2012 and it has also won several literary prizes. ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 4,767 ratings · 539 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Eva dorme 4.01 avg rating — 2,248 ratings — published 2010 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alle, außer mir by Francesca Melandri, Esther Hansen (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 1,589 ratings — published 2017 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Più alto del mare 3.83 avg rating — 794 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalte Füße by Francesca Melandri, Esther Hansen (translator) 4.09 avg rating — 120 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extraits gratuits - Lectures d'été Gallimard 2015 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Muriel Barbery, Alessandro Baricco it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalte Füße 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amore! Liebesgeschichten by Susanne Schüssler (Herausgeberin), Francesca Melandri, Gianni Celati liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giochi d'Amore: Attività Divertenti per Consolidare il Vostro Rapporto di Coppia by Francesca Melandri, Enigma 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Nord & Süd 2012: Leben, Arbeit, Wirtschaft in Südtirol by Business Location Südtirol (Editor), Franz Kössler (Editor), Angelika Burtscher (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What turns a man into a murderer? At which moment does anger over a historical injustice blend into another resentment that’s more ancient, private, shameful because nobody else shares it, and make this man put his hand on a detonator? When does his desire to obtain what he considers the general Good become indifference to specific Evil committed in the name of that same Good? What makes him capable of breaking the most important of prohibitions which, like a wall, divides the human consortium into those who have killed even just once, and those who haven’t? What that man needs above all else is absolute conviction, or rather a state of mind that has become cold, silent and motionless like a winter lake, in which pity no longer flows except downwards, downwards in dark and invisible eddies which may barely stir the light pebbles at the bottom, but not the icy slate on the surface.”
― Francesca Melandri, Eva Sleeps

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“Wenn du wissen willst, wer du bist, schau hin, wie die anderen dich sehen.”
― Francesca Melandri, Sangue giusto

tags: life, self-awareness, truth

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“Gerda ne connaissait pas le son du rire de son père. En revanche, elle se souvenait avec précision de la dernière fois où elle avait vu rire sa mère. Un seau d’eau savonneuse s’était renversé sur le sol de la cuisine. Hermann avait marché dessus et avait glissé. La vue de ce mari si raide qui tombait en tapant des fesses fit rire aux éclats Johanna. Gerda se souvint longtemps du rire léger de sa mère, avec des tressautements et des hoquets qui secouaient son maigre thorax. Hermann ne lui dit pas d’arrêter, il ne l’engueula pas, ne se moqua pas d’elle à son tour. Mais en se relevant, il lui lança un regard chargé d’un mépris si noir que son rire se sécha sur ses lèvres, comme une fleur des champs touchée par un tison. Gerda n’entendit jamais plus rire sa mère.”
― Francesca Melandri, Eva dorme

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