Review: Can You Hear Me? by Elena Varvello

Can You Hear Me? by Elena Varvello is the winner of the English PEN Award, translated into English for the first time. It is the summer of 1978, and Elia Furenti is a 16-year-old boy living in the small northern Italian town of Ponte. His mother, Marta, is the local librarian, a still vivid woman desperately…