The seas are filled with migrants risking their lives on perilous crossings; Europe is engulfed by xenophobia and fear. In the cities and towns, in the schools and shops, strange children are starting to appear: enigmatic and unnerving, they disappear like ghosts, causing uproar. Amid mounting paranoia, Khaled, a young teenager from a war-torn Middle Eastern country, by chance meets Karolina in a discount store in Brussels. She buys him a red suitcase, and they part ways: Karolina to both mourn and search for her missing son, whose laptop betrays his entanglement with extremist groups; Khaled to head south, against the flow of other refugees - travelling with urgent intent, desperately protecting the contents of his suitcase. At once a ghost story, a morality tale and a quest narrative, From Another World is a striking reflection on loss, grief and the struggle to brave love in a world seized by fury.

A masterwork of Gothic fiction, and a deeply affecting evocation of the experience of those who seek asylum, by one of Italy's most important writers.

About the Author
Evelina Santangelo is an author and translator. She has won the 2000 Premio Franciacorta, Premio Mondello, Premio Fiesole Narrativa and the Premio Berto, as well as being a finalist for the Premio Chiara. She is the author of six novels, of which From Another World is the first to be published in English. She lives in Palermo. Ruth Clarke is a translator from Spanish, French and Italian, whose translations include Cristina Caboni's The Secret Ways of Perfume. She is a founding member of The Starling Bureau, a collective of literary translators.


Book Information
ISBN 9781783786664
Author Evelina Santangelo
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 267g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 18mm