The Holiday

Dacia Maraini

Literature & Fiction

Panther

The author visits her Italian hometown, Bagheria, in an attempt to make peace with the aristocratic family she has rejected and condemns the destruction of Sicily's artistic and architectural treasures in its transition into a modern city

Bagheria

Biographies & Memoirs

Dufour Editions

Mo Marito / L'altra Famiglia

Contemporary

European Schoolbooks Limited

"Woman at War" is the diary of a woman's growing self-awareness. Beginning as a passively absent narrator, Vannina encounters a fascinating array of characters during the holiday she takes on an island in the Bay of Naples with her husband, Giacinto. When he returns to work in a garage in Rome, Vannina travels to Naples with Suna, a friend she has made on vacation. This startling character opens Vannina to the possibility of finding love through other women and helps her reject the role of serving coffee to the men who would change the world through violence. Back in Rome, Vannina rejects her former life and moves toward complete, if difficult, independence. Maraini's writing is superb. Its warm and sensual style gives life to details: the food of the Mediterranean, the smell of its herbs, the acts of making coffee and making love, the step-by-step journey of an individual to self-awareness, self-reliance and independence. Everything is vivid and vibrant. Maraini's women grow in strength beyond the clamor of political slogans. The values of understanding, intuition and compassion effect real change that transcends the wearisome struggle between the chauvinisms of the political Right and the political correctness of the Left. A milestone in Italian literature.

Woman at War

Italica Press

Cinema in the Arab World

Isley Lynn

Raúl Quirós Molina

Bahar Brunton

Karis E. Halsall

Renato Chiocca

Bloomsbury UK

Finalist for the International Man Booker Prize, winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award upon its first English-language publication in the UK, and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this mesmerizing historical novel by one of Italy’s premier women writers is available in the United States for the first time. The Silent Duchess is the story of Marianna Ucrìa, the victim of a mysterious childhood trauma that has left her deaf and mute, trapped in a world of silence. In luminous language that conveys both the keen visual sight and the deep human insight possessed by her remarkable main character, Dacia Maraini captures the splendor and the corruption of Marianna's world and the strength of her unbreakable spirit.

The Silent Duchess (FP Classics)

Literary

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Life, Brazen and Garish

Elvira G. Di Fabio

Rutgers University Press

Die Stumme Herzogin

Piper Munchen Zurich

Die stumme Herzogin

Piper Verlag GmbH

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