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Fiction. Italian Studies. MEDUSA: THE FOURTH KINGDOM, first published in Italian in 1992, has now been translated into English by Beverly Allen and re-published by City Lights Books. Whenever a contemporary Italian writer awakens one of the Mediterranean's slumbering myths, we understand that it has never died. Thus, the myth of Medusa, the very vision of female menace, comes to us here in a fascinating new guise --Medusa as she might have been as a girl, before she entered myth, an innocent beauty whose quest is complicated by her need to understand the complex reactions she causes in others. Her story is told in counterpart to that of a contemporary Roman woman drawn to a reticent, emotionally distant man. This hermetic first novel draws on ancient traditions to trace a complex psychological journey to independence and empowerment.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Medusa
• Subtitle: The Fourth Kingdom
• Author: Marina Minghelli
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• EAN: 9780872863538
• ISBN: 9780872863538
• ID: 06574699
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Weight: 221 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 132 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2001

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