Answer Me

A moving, engaging and provocative novel about fear, love and difficult decisions, from the bestselling author of Follow Your Heart.

Sometimes you find a book which you just can't stop reading... With this novel, Tamaro confirms her role as one of Italy's most loved writers...this book is eloquent in its simplicity, at once enjoyable and heartbreaking

Answer Me demands engagement...entertainingly grotesque

It's easy to see why Tamaro's bleakly atmospheric tales of life by the auto-strada, and her portentous pronouncements on love, life and Catholicism became such a runaway bestseller

Susanna Tamaro was born in Trieste in 1957 and is the author of eight adult books and four children's books. She established the Tamaro Foundation, dedicated to humanitarian causes, with the royalties from her literary work. Susanna Tamaro lives in Umbria.

An international bestseller from the author of Follow Your Heart, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. 
 
'I kill you in order that I may live. I kill you in order that I may possess. I kill you in order that I may be free of you.' Thus the protagonist Rosa muses on a bitter winter night, alone and confused, as she faces the most difficult decision of her young life. Are we, the characters ask, damned or are we capable of salvation? Can we exist in a world dominated by greed and envy? 
 
This is a book about the nature of evil, the struggle to live without fear and the search for love.

For Solo Voice

SALES POINTS: * Follow your heart has now sold over 5 million copies worldwide and is one of the most successful books of all time. * Follow your heart is already becoming a backlist seller in Minerva. * We have bought Tamaro's lastest novel, Soul of the World. Commitment to this author is very high. * Jacket treatment ties in with Follow Your Heart.

The reasons for its success are immediately obvious. It has enormous charm...narrated with a beguiling simplicity and intimacy, both tender and evocative.

Extremely moving...This is a novel that will sweep you off your feet should you be lucky enough to read it.

THE BOOK: The stories in For Solo Voice, Susanna Tamaro's first book, explore the historical and emotional traumas which lie beneath consciousness and threaten to erupt into everyday life. She exposes with analytical clarity, spectres of our past that abide in us as individuals and as a society, disfiguring our humanity.

Follow Your Heart

Winner of the Premio Donna Citta di Roma 1994 and an international bestseller, this is a profoundly moving and beautifully crafted meditation on existence.

[Follow Your Heart] has enormous charm and is packed with a philosophical wisdom we can immediately understand; it is narrated with a beguiling simplicity and intimacy so that the reader appears to have intruded upon a private correspondence

Extremely moving... This is a novel that will sweep you off your feet should you be lucky enough to read it

Susanna Tamaro was born in Trieste in 1957 and is the author of Follow Your Heart.

Driven by the fear of encroaching death, an elderly woman describes to a write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love letter and part confession, it is most importantly a bequest from an old woman at last brave enough to acknowledge that she has too long repressed her feelings and submitted to convention. Reliving everything that has happened to her she seeks to remind her granddaughter that the one worthwhile journey in life to the centre of oneself, in search of that original voice we all guard deep inside.

Susanna Tamaro

John Cullen

Tamaro writes with simplicity and clarity, and asks a great many questions of the universe

Vivid characters...brilliant descriptions of nature... [A] unique, curious coming-of-age novel

Marta is raised by her grandmother in her house in Trieste, a safe haven of stories, books and enchantment. She knows that her mother died when she was young, and she believes that her father is a Turkish prince. But, as she grows older and this fairy tale disintegrates, Marta feels only anger towards her grandmother for withholding information about her parents. 
 
When her grandmother dies, Marta is alone in the world. One day, in the dusty attic, she finds a box belonging to her mother which may help to uncover her own past. With clues found in her mother's journal and a worn photograph, Marta decides to track down her father, who she believes may still be alive. Feeling the need to escape her grandmother's house, which is populated by secrets, Marta embarks on a journey to Israel, seeking what is left of her mother's family in an attempt to make sense of where she came from. 
 
Written as a young woman's narrative addressed to the memory of her grandmother, Listen to My Voice is a poignant coming of age story, and a beautifully crafted meditation on the importance of history and belonging.

Susanna Tamaro

Praise for Listen to My Voice

Tamaro writes with simplicity and clarity, and asks a great many questions of the universe

Vivid characters...brilliant descriptions of nature... [A] unique, curious coming-of-age novel

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