Grazia Deledda, Author, Dacia Maraini, Author, Martha King, Editor Italica Press $15 (220p) ISBN 978-0-934977-16-6
Despite quixotic editing, this omnibus demonstrates the flexibility and sophistication of contemporary Italian fiction by women. Many writers here are not ``new'' (e.g., 1926 Nobelist Grazia Deledda, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg); half are...
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Dacia Maraini, Author Crossing Press $8.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-89594-262-3
This translation of Maraini's epistolary work marks the introduction of the prolific and multitalented Italian poet, playwright and novelist to an American audience. Bianca, the author of the book's 100 letters, has fled Rome to work on her...
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Dacia Maraini, Author, Dick Kitto, Translator, Elspeth Spottiswood, Translator Feminist Press $19.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-55861-194-8
The publication in America of Maraini's The Silent Duchess, originally issued in Italy as La hunga vita di Marianna Ucria (1990), is cause for rejoicing. Episodic and essentially plotless, but propelled by an inner tension, this unusual historical...
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Dacia Maraini, Author, Elspeth Spottiswood, Translator, Dick Kitto, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $30 (119p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0926-4
This memoir is crowded with recollections of Bagheria, the Sicilian hometown where the author's family had been nobility and to which they returned impoverished in 1947 after spending two years in a Japanese concentration camp during WWII. Italian...
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Dacia Maraini, Author, Sian Williams, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $35.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0897-7
The line between fiction and nonfiction blurs-and may disappear-in this new work from esteemed Italian author Maraini (The Silent Duchess). Referencing period newspapers and other archival materials, Maraini reconstructs the events surrounding the...
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Dacia Maraini, Author, Martha King, Translator Steerforth Press $21 (130p) ISBN 978-1-58642-048-2
A 12-year-old Albanian girl is sold into prostitution in Italy; a boy is duped by a man who pretends he is a pigeon; an eight-year-old girl is forced by her grandmother to service an old man. Most of the 12 stories in Italian writer Dacia ...
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Dacia Maraini, trans. from the Italian by Jane Tylus. Rutgers Univ, $29.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-9788-3392-0
The life of Italian saint Clare of Assisi gets a clever feminist reimagining in this biography-cum-epistolary novel by playwright Maraini (Voices). An author with the initials “DM” receives a letter from Chiara Mandalà, a Sicilian student who...
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