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Darkness : fiction / Dacia Maraini ; translated by Martha King.
Van Pelt Library PQ4873.A69 B8513 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maraini, Dacia.
- Standardized Title:
- Buio. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Victims of crimes--Italy--Fiction.
- Victims of crimes.
- Social conditions.
- Italy--Social conditions--1994---Fiction.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Italia, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Summary:
- Cribbing from the crime pages of Italian newspapers, Dacia Maraini creates in Darkness a memorable cast of characters for whom la dolce vita is merely a pipe dream. Among them is 12-year-old Viollca, an Albanian immigrant sold into prostitution by her parents, and Tano, a boy who brings charges of abuse against his father. Connecting the stories is Adele-Sofia, a tenderhearted police commissioner with nerves of steel. In spare, lyrical prose, Darkness illuminates Romes underbelly with courage and compassion. Maraini, winner of Italy's prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize, is one of the most important writers in Italian and feminist literature.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1586420488
- OCLC:
- 49750782
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