New York: Marsilio Publishers, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first and only novel, by this Italian translator, who lived for many years in the US and published posthumously. "Childhood lost, family and a world gone missing are the themes of this minutely detailed, infinitely tragic novel. . Born on a yacht in the mid-Atlantic, raised on the coast of France, the quietly desperate narrator looks seaward from her Maine cottage as a young woman, reckoning her losses and the mystery she will never solve. . . Fog-shrouded and bleak, this is a closely watched unskeining of a family's fortunes. Complex, morose, and chilling." (Kirkus) 258 pp. ISBN: 1-568860080.