Where She Has Gone, Nino Ricci
Where She Has Gone, Nino Ricci
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Where She Has Gone

Author: Nino Ricci

Narrator: Marco Timpano

Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2021


Synopsis

Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one’s longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after his father’s death. Uneasy with their new proximity in each other’s lives, they are at first restrained. But gradually what is unspoken between them comes closer to the surface, setting in motion a course of events that will take Victor back to Valle del Sole in Italy, the place of his birth. It is there, where the story had its strange beginning twenty years earlier, that he confronts his past, its secrets and its revelations. Poignant, gripping, and written in luminous, highly charged prose, Where She Has Gone is an unforgettable novel – for its vivid portrayal of character and place, and for its extraordinarily moving encounter with the past.

About The Author

NINO RICCI is the multi-award winning, bestselling author of the Lives of the Saints trilogy, TestamentThe Origin of Species, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau book in the Extraordinary Canadians series, and Sleep. He's been the recipient of the Governor General's Award twice, the Trillium Book Award, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction, among others, and has been a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Ricci has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Juiblee Medal. He has been recognized with the Order of Canada for his contributions to literature as a renowned author. He lives in Toronto.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucie on November 06, 2023

I loved the first two books in this trilogy by a Canadian author. Setting: Southern Ontario and Italy. This one is really good too, but I had a hard time with it half way through to the end. It's not that I needed a happy ending, but I needed one that was not so disturbing. It just got so f*cked up.......more

Goodreads review by Kristina on April 29, 2023

Morose. Strange. Sad. Difficult read. A choosing to live an empty life.......more

Goodreads review by Shila on December 26, 2018

An engaging book with a unique story but very depressing.......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on October 17, 2023

no point to it......more


Quotes

“A magnificent novel…beautifully balanced, expertly paced, and executed in a prose that’s so sure, so smooth in its operations, so expressive, that it might be said to thrum with a natural life.”
Quill & Quire (starred review)

“Ricci has spun out a delicate and soulful novel…miraculously fluid and well-shaped, the narrative unspools like a wavering dream.”
Time

“Nino Ricci confirms the wide breadth, dizzying heights and splendorous depths of his talent for telling a spellbinding tale.…”
Toronto Star

Where She Has Gone emerges as an accomplished and moving work.”
New York Times Book Review

“One of the grand achievements of contemporary Canadian writing.…”
Vancouver Sun


Awards

  • Scotiabank Giller Prize