Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali

New Einaudi edition, originally published by Rizzoli in 2003.

Premio Strega 2003
Globe & Mail Book of the Year
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year
International Prize Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente – Best Foreign Novel

“Vita is an extraordinary novel. It makes you stop, think and wonder. And that is exactly what great literature should do.”
Publishers Weekly

“Commanding and moving… Full of pungent fictional details.”
The New Yorker

In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, are sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make a life for themselves in America. Theirs is an unforgettable love story, a riveting tale of immigrant survival and hope that takes them from the crime-ridden tenements of Little Italy to the brutal rail yards of the Midwest, on paths that cross with the Black Hand, Caruso, and Chaplin. It is a story that reaches across decades, to the son of Vita, who would travel as far as Italy to find his roots and the man who could have been his father.
In Vita, Melania G. Mazzucco also tells her own story of how she found Diamante and Vita in old photographs, documents, ship manifests, and the fading memories of her relatives, and from these fragments of the past imagined this gripping epic fiction of her family’s history.

Publication date: 18.03.2014
Publisher: Einaudi - Super ET
Number of Pages: 472
Country: Italy

Vita Albas
Albania
1 October 2016

Vita Harper Collins
Canada
1 January 2005

Vita Palomar
Denmark
21 February 2019

Vita, elämäni Avain
Finland
1 January 2004

Vita (paperback) J'ai lu
France
1 January 2005

Vita Flammarion
France
1 January 2004

Vita Sulakauri Publishing
Georgia
1 May 2019

Vita Knaus
Germany
1 January 2004

Vita Euròpa Konyvkiado
Hungary
1 January 2007

ויטה Schocken
Israel
1 January 2005

Vita L'Espresso
Italy
18 March 2017

Vita Il Sole 24 Ore
Italy
26 August 2011

Vita Rizzoli
Italy
12 February 2003

Life Book Cover
Portugal
1 October 2024

Numele ei era Viata Polirom
Romania
1 January 2006

비타 Korea Random House
South Korea
12 August 2010

Vita (paperback) Anagrama
Spain
11 June 2014

Vita Anagrama
Spain
1 November 2004

Vita (paperback) Contempo
Sweden
1 June 2016

Vita Norstedts
Sweden
1 January 2009

Vita (paperback) Mouria
The Netherlands
1 January 2009

Vita Mouria
The Netherlands
1 January 2005

Hayat Dogan Kitap
Turkey
1 May 2007

Vita (paperback) Picador
US & UK
1 January 2006

Vita Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
US & UK
1 January 2005

Foreign rights sold in
Albania: Albas
Canada: HarperCollins
Denmark: Forlaget Palomar
Finland: Avain
France: Flammarion, J’ai lu, Editions du Club
Georgia: Sulakauri
Germany: Knaus
Hungary: Európa
Israel: Schocken
Korea: Random House Corea
Portugal: Book Cover
Romania: Polirom
Spain: Anagrama
Sweden: Norsteds, Contempo
The Netherlands and Belgium: Mouria
Turkey: Doğan Kitap
US and UK: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Picador