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Bagheria / Dacia Maraini ; translated from the Italian by Dick Kitto and Elspeth Spottiswood.
Van Pelt Library PQ4873.A69 B313 1994
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LIBRA - Special PQ4829.O62 Z4613 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maraini, Dacia.
- Standardized Title:
- Bagheria. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Maraini, Dacia--Homes and haunts--Italy--Bagheria.
- Maraini, Dacia.
- Authors, Italian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Italian.
- Italy.
- Italy--Bagheria.
- Bagheria (Italy)--Social life and customs.
- Bagheria (Italy).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Chester Springs : P. Owen ; Chester Spring, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 1994.
- Summary:
- In Bagheria, Dacia Maraini revisits the landscape of early memory. She describes Sicily in sensuous detail, the town of Bagheria, and the ancestral villa to which she returned as a child after two horrific years of imprisonment with her family in a Japanese concentration camp. The Villa Valguarnera and Maraini recalls the spiritual struggles and her rebellion against the elitism of her class. She also discusses her experience of child abuse. Bagheria is also a tale of corruption: centuries of the town's past unfold alongside Maraini's family history as she details the involvement of the Mafia in the architectural decimation of Bagheria in the 1970s.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0720609267
- OCLC:
- 32856904
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