Nadia Terranova’s 2022 novel "The Night Trembles" (Trema la notte), translated by Ann Goldstein for Seven Stories Press (2025), gives voice to Barbara and Nicola, a young woman and a boy whose parallel plot lines develop against the background of a catastrophic natural disaster – the earthquake that decimated the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria, on each side of the Strait of Messina, on December 28, 1908.| Reading in Translation
Long before postmodern historical novels such as Italo Calvino’s "Invisible Cities" (1972), Umberto Eco’s "The Name of the Rose" (1980), Christa Wolf’s "Cassandra" (1983), and Salman Rushdie’s "The Enchantress of Florence" (2008) captivated readers with their imaginative, thoroughly researched, and carefully plotted recreation of the past, there was Vera Mutafchieva’s "The Case of Cem" (1967).| Reading in Translation