by Melania G. Mazzucco · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467210330
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«Vita» is the historical novel by Melania G. Mazzucco, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (477 pages, in Spanish).
In 1903, Diamante and Vita emigrate from Italy to New York, where they grow up amid hunger, discrimination and extortion. Over ten years they alternate trades and experience love and betrayal, without fulfilling their dreams. In 1944, Vita's son fights in Italy seeking the man who should have been his father. The author drew on family memories, documents and press.
Translation by Xavier González Rovira. The work, originally published in 2003, won the Strega Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction about Italian emigration to the United States, with an interest in stories with a documentary and family basis.
Melania Gaia Mazzucco is an Italian author. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize.
