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Italy, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation
A delightfully funny, bestselling, prize-winning Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024
The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy
'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny
'I adored it' Naoise Dolan
'Hilarious' Roddy Doyle
'Thrillingly original' Monica Ali
Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety; a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions; and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations, and a complicated relationship with truth and storytelling ...
Praise for Lost on Me: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
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This deliciously enjoyable novel is a true original and one to savour
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Highly entertaining, thought-provoking and one of 2023's best novels yet - Strong Words
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It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed. - Big Issue
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With combustive prose and oxidising wit, Veronica Raimo sets fire to the Bildungsroman. A clear-eyed comedic talent who bends the novel form to her will
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I fell head over heels in love with Lost on Me. What a thrillingly original voice!
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This book made me want to clear my calendar and read everything of Raimo's I could get my hands on. Incisive, engrossing, and deeply funny
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A bold, provocative, and original book
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A desecrating and tender portrait of family that reels us in from the very first lines - Il Corriere della Sera
Veronica Raimo
Veronica Raimo is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, Lost On Me (Niente di Vero) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega Prize and won the Strega Giovani Prize and the Viareggio RA paci Prize. She contributes cultural articles to various Italian publications, and her translations into Italian include works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia E. Butler, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin. She lives in Rome.
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