Vita

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age...
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Author: Melania Mazzucco
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Language: English
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Vita by Mazzucco, Melania

Vita

CHF 36.83

Vita

CHF 36.83
Author: Melania Mazzucco
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, are sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make a life for themselves in America. Theirs is an unforgettable love story, a riveting tale of immigrant survival and hope that takes them from the crime-ridden tenements of Little Italy to the brutal rail yards of the Midwest, on paths that cross with the Black Hand, Caruso, and Chaplin. It is a story that reaches across decades, to the son of Vita, who would travel as far as Italy to find his roots and the man who could have been his father.

In Vita, the author, Melania G. Mazzucco, also tells her own story of how she found Diamante and Vita in old photographs, documents, ship manifests, and the fading memories of her relatives, and from these fragments of the past imagined this gripping epic fiction of her family's history.

Author: Melania Mazzucco
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 09/19/2006
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780312425869


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/29/2006 pg. 32

About the Author

Melania G. Mazzucco was born in Rome in 1966. She earned a degree in Italian literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza and a degree in cinema from the Experimental Center for Cinematography. In addition to her four novels, she has written award-winning works for the cinema, theater, and radio. Vita was awarded the 2003 Strega Prize, Italy's leading literary award.




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