by Dacia Maraini · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817004404
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«Colomba» is the novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Rizzoli in hardcover (373 pages, in Italian).
Zaira, a grandmother, is the only one who believes her granddaughter Colomba is still alive after disappearing in the woods of Abruzzo. Zaira goes to a writer and entrusts her with her family's memory, a story spanning the First World War, emigration to Australia, and the 1970s. Two female voices intertwine the search with a century of secrets.
The first Italian edition was published on November 24, 2004.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Italian literature who appreciate choral novels about memory, family, and twentieth-century history.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Fregene Prize for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.
