by Sebastiano Vassalli · Promolibro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806172749
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«La chimera» is Sebastiano Vassalli's historical novel, published in paperback and in Italian.
In a seventeenth-century village in the Po Valley, the novel follows the tragic life of Antonia, known as the witch of Zardino. Vassalli interweaves a closed rural society with comic, grotesque and moving episodes, and shows the superstition and injustice that mark the protagonist's fate.
The novel won the Strega Prize and was originally published in 1990; this Italian edition appeared in 2005 in the ET Scrittori collection.
For readers of historical fiction who enjoy reading about rural seventeenth-century Piedmont and the persecution for witchcraft.
Sebastiano Vassalli was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel The Italian (L'italiano).
