
Vita
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

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