Eva dorme

by Francesca Melandri

364 pages, Paperback

Published April 23, 2025

About the author

Francesca Melandri was born in Rome in 1964. She started writing very young, working first as a screenwriter, and has worked on films and television series, as well as a number of prize winning documentaries.

In 2010 she published her first novel, 'Eva dorme' ("Eva Sleeps"), set in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria, a sweeping story about family, forgiveness, conflict and the search for truth. The novel, which won several literary prizes in 2010 and 2011, has been translated in German, Dutch, French and English.

Melandri's second novel, 'Più alto del mare', was published in 2012 and it has also won several literary prizes.