Rombo

In Rombo, a word that designates the dark roar that the earth makes when it trembles, nature and oral history intertwine to illuminate a vibrant story about the effects, both physical and psychological, of natural disasters. In May and September 1976, two earthquakes devastated northeast Italy and caused serious damage to the landscape and its population: about a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of thousands were left out in the open, and many ended up abandoning their homes forever in Friuli. "Since then, half a life or more has passed, but the letter with which it was inscribed in everyone's memory has not been erased" Rombo is, indeed, an investigation into memory woven by the testimonies of seven inhabitants of a remote village. Between the Alps and the Adriatic, people who have to learn to live from loss and trauma.

Poeta y traductora del polaco, el inglés y el ruso, Esther Kinsky (Renania, 1956) es una de las prosistas más destacadas de la literatura alemana. Su primera novela, Am Fluss, de próxima aparición en Periférica, obtuvo los premios Adelbert von Chamisso (2016), Franz Hessel (2014), Kranichsteiner Literature (2015) y SWR (2015). Con la segunda, Arboleda (Periférica, 2021), el Premio de la Feria del Libro de Leipzig y el Düsseldorf Literature Prize, ambos en 2018. En 2021 fue galardonada con el Premio Erich Fried y, en 2022, con el prestigioso Kleist a toda su obra. Por Rombo (Periférica, 2023) recibió el Premio W. G. Sebald. Su obra, acogida con entusiasmo por la crítica y traducida a numerosas lenguas, se ha publicado en algunas de las editoriales internacionales más prestigiosas.