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Chiara Barzini

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Chiara Barzini is an award-winning Italian screen and fiction writer. She lived and studied in the United States where she covered Lifestyle and Culture stories for numerous American and Italian publications. She writes and translates both in English and Italian and is the author of the short story collection Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012) and the novel Things That Happened Before The Earthquake (Doubleday, 2017) which was a Best Book of the Year for Vogue, Esquire, Elle, Bustle, and the Guardian, and a best summer book for the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, BBC, and Oprah! magazine. Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She has a regular column in D Repubblica and is a Literature Advisor at the A ...more

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Average rating: 3.34 · 1,402 ratings · 205 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Things That Happened Before the Earthquake 3.29 avg rating — 1,232 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aqua: A Story of Water and Lost Dreams 3.72 avg rating — 78 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nuovo Decameron by Barbara Alberti (Contributor), Chiara Barzini (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jonathan Bazzi (Contributor) 3.26 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister Stop Breathing 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AQUA: A Story of Water and Lost Dreams 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Shooting people and celebrating Christmas: Everything in LA could be done from the comfort of one’s vehicle.”
― Chiara Barzini, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake

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“English is not your first language, but I can get it to become your first language’s bright younger sister,” she wrote.”
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“English is not your first language, but I can get it to become your first language’s bright younger sister,”
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