{"id":5915,"date":"2016-04-29T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2016-04-29T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:32:01","slug":"alumnus-christian-moretti-publishes-second-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/04\/29\/alumnus-christian-moretti-publishes-second-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Christian Moretti publishes second novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian G Moretti, an alumnus from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, has just published his second novel <em>L&#8217;Attesa delle Isole <\/em>[<em>The Wait of the Islands<\/em>], published by Italian publisher Edizioni Croce.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Wait of the Islands<\/em> tells two intertwined stories that span a period of over 40 years.\u00a0One strand is a historical portrait of the Tremiti Islands, a small archipelago in the Adriatic Sea that was home to a penal colony that imprisoned those convicted of homosexuality prior to the Second World War. The poor conditions on the islands left a scar on those who experienced life in the colony, such as Matteo,\u00a0who lived through the Fascist period.<\/p>\n<p>The second story is that of Michele, son of Matteo, who, after the death of his father, is forced to emigrate to Ireland with his mother. There he lives a hidden love story with his partner Niall, in a country where homosexuality was still illegal and punishable by jail.<\/p>\n<p>This is Christian&#8217;s third book, following his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/research-comparative-literature.html\">PhD in Comparative Literature<\/a> in 2013, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=3549\">published his thesis in January<\/a> as Conversations with the Self (Troubador, 2015), and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/?view=4114\">first novel Che\u00a0Morte non vi\u00a0Separi (Europa Edizioni, 2015) last year<\/a>. All of the books are available on the author&#8217;s website here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmoretti.net\">www.christianmoretti.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the publisher\u2019s webpage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edizionicroce.com\/libro.asp?idlibro=737\">www.edizionicroce.com\/libro.asp?idlibro=737<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian G Moretti, an alumnus from the Department of Comparative Literature, has just published his second novel L&#8217;Attesa delle Isole [The Wait of the Islands], &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/04\/29\/alumnus-christian-moretti-publishes-second-novel\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":5916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}