Medusa

Whenever a contemporary Italian writer awakens one of the Mediterranean's slumbering myths, we understand that it had never died. Thus the myth of Medusa, the very vision of female menace, comes to us here in a fascinating new guise - Medusa as she might have been as a girl, before she entered myth, an innocent beauty whose quest is complicated by her need to understand the complex reactions she causes in others. Her story is told in counterpart to that of a contemporary Roman woman drawn to a reticent, emotionally distant man. This hermetic first novel draws on ancient traditions to trace a …