The Performance

Name: The Performance
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By Claudia Petrucci

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The Performance follows Giorgia, a former actress who has abandoned her career for love. Her life with Filippo seems settled until the reappearance of her old theatre director, Mauro, rekindles her passion for acting. As Giorgia struggles to distinguish reality from fiction, she suffers a collapse and is admitted to a clinic. Filippo and Mauro become entwined in a complex and manipulative dynamic as they attempt to write the script for Giorgia's recovery and future.
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The story of a love triangle played out through mutual manipulation.

Giorgia was a talented actress before she abandoned her stage career and fell in love with Filippo. She settles into a life of quiet compromise - until one day she bumps into her old theatre director, Mauro, who fans the acting flame back to life. But setting a restless soul on fire can be dangerous if she loses sight of the boundary between reality and fiction - and Giorgia collapses, ending up in a clinic.

Filippo and Mauro find themselves both accomplices and adversaries, seduced by a dangerous game to heal and win back Giorgia: by writing the script for her perfect life.

In this dazzling debut, Petrucci explores the ambiguous borders between love, possession, and control in clear, magnetic prose. The Performance invites readers to question where performance ends and reality begins.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781642861105

Publisher: World Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: World Editions

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Anne Milano Appel

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

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Claudia Petrucci Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

CLAUDIA PETRUCCI studied Modern Letters in Milan before moving to Perth, Australia. Her reportages and short stories-which range from realistic to experimental to science fiction-have been published on Cadillac, minima&moralia, and elsewhere. The Performance is her debut novel. It was shortlisted for the John Fante Award and won the prestigious Premio Flaiano Giovani, for writers under 30. It was also book of the day on Fahrenheit, an Italian radio program, and has so far been translated into German and French.

ANNE MILANO APPEL, based in California, has translated works by a number of leading Italian authors for a variety of publishers in the US and UK. Her most recent translations include works by the award-winning Antonio Scurati and Paolo Maurensig. Her awards include the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation, and the Northern California Book Award for Translation. Her website is: amilanoappel.com.