by Dacia Maraini · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432206412
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«La larga vida de Marianna Ucrìa» is the historical novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Seix Barral in paperback (277 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Sicily in the first half of the eighteenth century, it narrates the life of Marianna, the deaf-mute daughter of an aristocratic Palermo family. Her silent gaze portrays a world of rigid conventions, female oppression and inequality, as she tries to build her own identity against the current.
Translation from the Italian by Atilio Pentimalli Melacrino of «La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa». Novel winner of the Campiello Prize in 1990, published in the Biblioteca Breve collection by Seix Barral.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary fiction with an interest in female portraits and eighteenth-century Sicily.
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.
