Silent Duchess - Couverture souple

Maraini, Dacia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 155861222X ISBN 13 : 9781558612228

Editeur : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2000

Synopsis

The stunning English translation of the International Man Booker Prize Finalist novel hailed as "a story of grace and endurance, not mere survival" (The New York Times Book Review).

Winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award, and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this "spellbinding" historical novel by one of Italy's premier authors is now available in this luminous new translation (Booklist).

In early 18th century Sicily, noblewoman Marianna Ucrìigrave;a is trapped in a world of silence after a terrible childhood trauma left her deaf and mute. Married off to a lecherous uncle, she struggles to educate and elevate herself against all convention-and find her true place in a world that sees her as little more than property.

In language that conveys the keen vision and deep human insight possessed by her protagonist, Dacia Maraini captures the splendor and the corruption of Marianna's world, as well as the strength of her unbreakable spirit, in "one of those rare, rich, deep, strange novels that create a world so fantastic and so real you want to start reading it again as soon as you come to the last page" (Newsday).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

One of Italy's foremost women writers, Dacia Maraini was a finalist for the International Man Booker prize, the winner of the international Prix Formentor and the Premio Campiello, one of Italy's highest literary honors. She is the author of more than fifty books, including novels, plays, collections of poetry, and critical essays.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 155861222X
• ISBN 13: 9781558612228
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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