by Tonino Benacquista · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072953767
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«Porca miseria» is the autobiographical account by Tonino Benacquista, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (208 pages, in French).
In 1954 the Benacquista family emigrates from Italy to the outskirts of Paris. Tonino Benacquista reconstructs the story of his parents, Cesare and Elena, and his own childhood as the youngest in the family, combining memory and fantasy. The account also addresses his long process of learning French and how writing set him apart from an adverse reality.
Tonino Benacquista was born in 1961 into a family of Italian emigrants; he is a novelist and screenwriter for film and comics. «Porca miseria» was originally published in French in January 2022.
Non-fiction work for the general public interested in biographies, memoirs and migration stories.
Tonino Benacquista is a French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita, which was later adapted into a film by Relativity Media and EuropaCorp titled The Family, released on 13 September 2013 in North America. The novel Malavita was republished as The Family for a movie tie-in by Penguin Random House in 2013.
