by Mariateresa Di Lascia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226087027
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«Passage dans l’ombre» is the novel by Mariateresa Di Lascia, published by Albin Michel in paperback (402 pages, in French).
Chiara, now elderly and plagued by pain, takes refuge in memory to avoid falling into madness. From her recollections emerge her mother Anita, her father Francesco, her aunt Peppina and her cousin Saverio, and with them the life of a community in southern Italy. A novel about family, old age and the need to tell one's own life story.
Original title: «Passaggio in ombra»; it won the Strega Prize in 1995. This French edition was published in 1996 in the Les Grandes Traductions collection.
For readers of Italian fiction and intimate novels about memory and family.
