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Tangerinn

Emanuela Anechoum author Lucy Rand translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Publishing:26th Mar '26

£14.99

This title is due to be published on 26th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Tangerinn cover

The novel for a displaced generation 

Mina is thirty years old and leads a life in London built with great care and little spontaneity, in a frantic attempt to finally feel “right”. One evening she receives a phone call from her mother: her father has died. 

Mina returns home for the funeral, but ends up staying. Home is a small seaside town where her Moroccan father ran a beach bar frequented mostly by immigrants, a place of refuge for those who didn’t feel welcome in this new land.

It’s here, in a place that doesn’t seem to belong to anyone, and where people too often appear like ghosts who pass and vanish, that Mina finds her family, and the memories of her father: the mythical, elusive, eternal migrant with a mysterious past. Here, Mina will discover that roots are just a fleeting dream, a desire to find oneself in a common history and shared affection that allows us to forget, at least at times, the ferocity of the world and the wounds of abandonment. 

“Tangerinn is a contemporary family saga, imbued with delicate irony and tremendous psychological and political acumen. Italian literature has been waiting years for a novel like this.” * Vincenzo Latronico, author of Perfection *
"Incandescent." * Rolling Stone (Italy *
 “Tangerinn carefully addresses burning issues of double identity, uprooting, and religious conflict.” * La Repubblica *
“One of the novel’s most successful aspects is Anechoum’s ability to depict emotional bonds through evocative, intimate, and at times poignant details.” * Mangrovia *
“A novel where one feels the weight of absence, but also the possibility of reinventing oneself.” * Il Libraio *

ISBN: 9781787706262

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages