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Paola Capriolo

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Paola Capriolo

Paola Capriolo is the author of fifteen books, including novels, collections of stories, literary criticism, and translations from the German. Several of her novels have appeared in English: Floria Tosca, The Woman Watching, A Man of Character, and The Double Kingdom. English versions of her stories have been published in such magazines as Conjunctions and Review of Contemporary Fiction. She lives in Milan.

Articles by Paola Capriolo

Brothers
By Paola Capriolo
Two brothers, the first two brothers. Conceived on the threshold of paradise, so to speak, when Adam and Eve, driven out by the cherubim with the flaming sword that turned every way, took up residence…
Translated from Italian by Lawrence Venuti