Bella Mia
Di Pietrantonio, Donatella2015
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A moving and unsentimental story of inner reconstruction after a devastating loss. Shortlisted for the prestigious Premio Strega in Italy in 2014, this is the story of a broken family coming to terms, in the aftermath of the earthquake in L Aquila in 2009, with the loss of one of them - a twin sister, a daughter, a mother while living in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city. The terse and clean voice of the spiky, single, thirty-something female narrator wards off sentimentality while guiding us through the inner reconstruction undertaken by each character individually and by the family as a whole, letting us witness the extraordinary poetic power of love and the renewal of hope.
Main title:
Bella Mia / Donatella di Petrantonio ; translate [from the Italian] by Franca Scurti Simpson.
Author:
Di Pietrantonio, Donatella, author
Imprint:
Folkestone : Calisis Press, 2015
Collation:
178 pages : ; cm
ISBN:
9780993238024 (pbk)
Dewey class:
853.92
Language:
EnglishItalian
BRN:
1851922