by Piera Degli Esposti, Dacia Maraini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401340802
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«Historia de Piera» is the biography written by Piera Degli Esposti and Dacia Maraini, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (168 pages, in Spanish).
The work narrates the life of Piera Degli Esposti from her childhood, marked by her mother's mental illness and her father's admission to a psychiatric hospital, to her work as a seamstress and her subsequent success in the theater. This biographical testimony inspired the movie by Marco Ferreri starring Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert and Marcello Mastroianni.
This is the first edition, translated by Juan Moreno, in the collection 'La vida es río'.
Suitable for readers of biographies and for those who want to learn about the origin of Marco Ferreri's movie.
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.
