Information about the author

Gabriella Ghermandi was born in Addis Ababa and lives in Bologna, Italy. She writes and acts in narrative plays that she produces in Italy and Switzerland. She also conducts creative writing workshops for schools. This is her first novel. Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi is a professor of Italian language and literature at Smith College. She is a translator, with Victoria Offredi Poletto, of Little Mother. Victoria Offredi Poletto is a senior lecturer in Italian emerita at Smith College.

Blurb text

Mahlet, a young Ethiopian girl with a gift for storytelling, has a special bond with Yacob, the oldest in her household. When Yacob tells her stories of how he and the other warriors fought in the resistance against the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, Mahlet vows to become the keeper and plate of her family's stories.