Stories for the Years

“Stories for the Years is a fine sampling of Pirandello’s world, convincingly translated by Jewiss, who negotiates the problems of bringing his vivid, colloquial prose and effortless storytelling into English with great skill.”—Tim Parks, New York Review of Books

Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose, sponsored by The American Literary Translators Association 

"Virginia Jewiss opens up many of Pirandello's rich, humorous, tragic, always engaging and surprising worlds in these trenchant and entertaining stories."—Jonathan Galassi

“Pirandello is a master of the beguiling story that packs a frightening punch."—Tim Parks, author of Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

“The visionary dramatist Luigi Pirandello was also a masterful spinner of short stories that are steeped in the salt sea, bitter herbs, and ancient passions of his native Sicily. Virginia Jewiss captures the biting edge of Pirandello’s irony with perfect pitch.”—Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame

“The greatest short fiction begins with narrative and moves effortlessly into archetype, achieving in a small compass an epiphany about what is quintessentially human. Jewiss has rendered Pirandello's epiphanies faithfully and triumphantly.”—Karl Kirchwey, Boston University