“The water of the lake is never sweet”, an abrasive youth in the third novel by Giulia Caminito

Barely three novels to her credit, and Giulia Caminito has already established herself as one of the most original voices in new Italian literature. The water in the lake is never sweet has been in the running for the main literary prizes in his country, and winner of the Premio Campiello, which is among the most prestigious. On the shores of Lake Bracciano, near Rome, whose polluted, dark and disturbing waters are said to conceal sunken cities or treasures, a young girl recounts in the first person a childhood and adolescence of the 2000s in a most precarious environment.