by Dacia Maraini · ROBERT LAFFONT · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782221106440
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«La vie silencieuse de Marianna Ucria» is the historical novel by Dacia Maraini published by Robert Laffont in paperback format (412 pages, in French).
In eighteenth-century Sicily, Marianna Ucrìa becomes deaf and mute at the age of five, marked by a painful secret. Confined to silence, Marianna takes refuge in reading and in the ideas of the Enlightenment, and finds the courage to face the truth and win her freedom in a land of contrasts.
The novel, originally published as «La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa» in 1990, won the Campiello Prize.
Will appeal to readers of historical fiction and translated Italian literature.
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.
