Inverno (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374610135)

A daring, heartbreaking novel, Inverno is the book that J. D. Salinger's Franny Glass might have written a few decades into her adulthood.

Caroline waited for fifteen minutes in the snow. After a little time had passed, she was simply waiting to see what would happen. It was entirely possible he would not come. If he did not come, she would be in a different story than the one she had imagined, but it was possible, she knew, to imagine anything.

Inverno is a love story that stretches across decades. Inverno is also the story of Caroline, waiting in Central Park in a snowstorm for her phone to ring, yards from where, thirty years ago, Alastair, as a boy, hid in the trees. Will he call? Won't he? The story moves the way the mind does: years flash by in an instant--now we are in the perilous world of fairy tale, now stranded anew in childhood, with its sorrows and harsh words. Ever present are the complicated negotiations of the heart.

This brilliantly original novel by Cynthia Zarin, author of An Enlarged Heart, is a kaleidoscope in which the past and the present shatter. Elliptical and inventive in the mode of Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, Inverno is miraculous and startling. It asks, How does love make and unmake a life?

Author: Cynthia Zarin
ISBN-10: 0374610134
ISBN-13: 9780374610135
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2024
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.61w x 0.41d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2023 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2023
Library Journal 12/01/2023 pg. 89
Booklist 01/01/2024 pg. 25
Shelf Awareness 01/12/2024