Francesca Melandri

The article deals with the subject of the South Tyrol’s peculiarities in Francesca Melandri’s
debut novel Eva dorme (Eve sleeps, 2011). The author presents the most important
characteristics of the region – the multilingualism of province, lack of understanding
between the different ethnic groups, relationships with newcomers, reciprocal stereotypes
and the legal separation of italian- and german-speaking groups. The novel is an
interesting and original position on italian publishing market (due to a subject of novel)
but it represents a conservative attempt to the problem of local identity and didactics
aspiration to approach a less well-known part of country to the italian reader.