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'Italy's most audacious female writer' - Sunday Times
'A fiction of elegance and charm' - Mail on Sunday
'Dacia Maraini is an artist of considerable power. The Silent Duchess is a novel that would have delighted Nabokov. It is brimming with detail, vividly presented in a style that is abrupt, spiky, and yet luxuriant. Every page presents one with the unexpected. It arouses intense feeling, it provokes thought.' - Scotsman
'The Silent Duchess succeeds through its accretion of details. A vivid and hushed account, Maraini's portrayal of the Duchess Marianna's life is blanketed in a strange beauty, like the snow-muffled landscape of winter.' - Observer
Won the Premio Campiello, Italy's most prestigious literary prize
Sold over a quarter of a million copies
Winner of the monthly 'Independent' Award for Foreign Fiction
Set in the mid-18th century, Dacia Maraini's unforgettable novel tells the story of three generations of the Ucria family, seen through the watchful eyes of the deaf-mute Duchess Marianna. Married at 13 to her own uncle and set apart from other people by her disability, she relentlessly searches for fulfilment in a society where women either face marriage and endless child-bearing or a life of renunciation within the walls of a convent.
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'A fiction of elegance and charm' - Mail on Sunday
'Dacia Maraini is an artist of considerable power. The Silent Duchess is a novel that would have delighted Nabokov. It is brimming with detail, vividly presented in a style that is abrupt, spiky, and yet luxuriant. Every page presents one with the unexpected. It arouses intense feeling, it provokes thought.' - Scotsman
'The Silent Duchess succeeds through its accretion of details. A vivid and hushed account, Maraini's portrayal of the Duchess Marianna's life is blanketed in a strange beauty, like the snow-muffled landscape of winter.' - Observer
Won the Premio Campiello, Italy's most prestigious literary prize
Sold over a quarter of a million copies
Winner of the monthly 'Independent' Award for Foreign Fiction
Set in the mid-18th century, Dacia Maraini's unforgettable novel tells the story of three generations of the Ucria family, seen through the watchful eyes of the deaf-mute Duchess Marianna. Married at 13 to her own uncle and set apart from other people by her disability, she relentlessly searches for fulfilment in a society where women either face marriage and endless child-bearing or a life of renunciation within the walls of a convent.
'Her best novel in years - interspersed with evocatively detailed descriptions of day-to-day life: smells, food, medicaments and contraptions of every kind' --Times Literary Supplement
'Set in eighteenth-century Italy the story of our heroine, Marianna, and of her family is a fascinating one which manages totally to overpower the reader with its narrative urgency. Maraini brilliantly conveys the mixture of luxury and squalor in which the Sicilian aristocracy lived, and with great skill, communicates every detail through the eyes and nostrils of her Silent Duchess.' --Evening Standard
'Few other historical novelists have so forcefully expressed the sense that the age which they describe is a shaping force in the conduct of their characters - an astonishing achievement' --Independent
'Set in eighteenth-century Italy the story of our heroine, Marianna, and of her family is a fascinating one which manages totally to overpower the reader with its narrative urgency. Maraini brilliantly conveys the mixture of luxury and squalor in which the Sicilian aristocracy lived, and with great skill, communicates every detail through the eyes and nostrils of her Silent Duchess.' --Evening Standard
'Few other historical novelists have so forcefully expressed the sense that the age which they describe is a shaping force in the conduct of their characters - an astonishing achievement' --Independent
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- Date d'édition2010
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