Bella Mia - Brossura

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0993238025 ISBN 13: 9780993238024

Casa editrice: Calisi Press, 2016

Riassunto

A moving and unsentimental story of inner reconstruction after a devastating loss

Shortlisted for the prestigious Premio Strega in Italy in 2014, this is the story of a broken family coming to terms, in the aftermath of the earthquake in L Aquila in 2009, with the loss of one of them - a twin sister, a daughter, a mother while living in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city.

The terse and clean voice of the spiky, single, thirty-something female narrator wards off sentimentality while guiding us through the inner reconstruction undertaken by each character individually and by the family as a whole, letting us witness the extraordinary poetic power of love and the renewal of hope.

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L'autore

Donatella di Pietrantonio was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother is a River was her first novel. First published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, published in 2014, won the Brancati Prize and was shortlisted for the prestigious Strega Prize.

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• Editore: Calisi Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0993238025
• ISBN 13: 9780993238024
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192