Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum, translated by Lucy Rand

Rizzoli Bookstore is delighted to partner with the Bridge Book Award to to celebrate Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum (translated by Lucy Rand), a profound and resonant story of a woman's search for belonging and identity between cultures. She will be in conversation with Eduordo Andreoni, followed by a signing.

This particular event is a part of the NYC Art and Craft in Translation Meetings and Dialogues on Literary Translation festival from April 13th to 15th — a three-day program, curated by Maria Ida Gaeta, with organizational support of Cathe Giffuni, Maria Gliozzi, Maria Letizia Rossi, and the collaboration of the representatives of the Institutions and Universities hosting the events, including the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, FUIS (Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori), the CUNY Graduate Center, Hunter College — CUNY, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò at NYU, Hunter College, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College, and Rizzoli Bookstore.

Art and Craft in Translation was created to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Bridge Book Award (which over the course of its 10 editions has promoted 200 titles and as many authors, financing the translation of 40 books from Italian into English and vice versa) and to continue the reflections developed within the Festival “Multipli Forti — Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature” (which in its recent editions has presented more than 60 authors with their unpublished works to the New York public).

PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 2:30 pm.

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WINNER of the Città di Lugnano Debut Novel Prize
WINNER of the Mastercard Debut Novel Prize
WINNER of the Bancarella Select Prize

A luminous debut about the search for belonging, the tension between departure and return, and the legacy of migration.

Mina is thirty and living in London. She fled there at twenty to reinvent herself to escape her small-town past, but a decade later she is drifting, untethered and uncertain. When her Moroccan-born father Omar dies, she returns to her childhood home on the Calabrian coast, where he ran a bar called the Tangerinn. It was more than just a bar—it was a gathering place, a haven for migrants and misfits, a dream that Mina’s sister, Aisha, is struggling to keep alive.

In searching for traces of her father, Mina begins to piece together her own fractured sense of identity. As she reconnects with the memories embedded in the land, she must confront what it means to belong—not just to a place, but to a lineage, a language, a self.

With precise, sensual prose and an acute sensitivity to atmosphere and emotion, Anechoum delivers a novel that is at once tender and fierce, local and borderless, as intimate as it is political.

Emanuela Anechoum was born in Reggio Calabria in 1991 and lives in Rome. After completing her studies, she began working in publishing in London before relocating to Italy. Her writing has appeared in Vice, Doppiozero, and Marvin Rivista. Tangerinn is her debut novel.

Edoardo Andreoni is an editor at Europa Editions, where he oversees the nonfiction list. He holds a PhD in Cold War history from the University of Cambridge. Originally from Florence, Italy, he lives in New York.

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