Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale #joyce Named a BOOK OF THE

Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times

but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond

Gollancz    ISBN: 9780575089914Extent: 672 pages

quietly going about her tasks

Secrets of a Christmas Elf

Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale #joyce Named a BOOK OF THEA prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos. With entries as varied as elbow, Ophelia, progress, the painter Giorgio Morandi, chess, Eulalia (a friend of the authors aunt), and unicorn, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American