by Dacia Maraini · Libri Oro RCS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788848603201
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«Colomba» is the novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Libri Oro RCS in hardback (384 pages, in Italian).
Colomba has been missing for a year in a forest in the Abruzzo; only her grandmother Zaira searches for her while recalling a saga of emigrants from southern Italy: a soldier killed in the Carso, an illegitimate son exiled to Australia, and a troubled girl. Zaira's testimony is heard by a writer, who interweaves these voices with the present.
Rizzoli Libri Oro collection. Italian edition published in 2005. The plot is set in 2002 and goes back to the end of the 19th century.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction interested in family sagas and the work of Dacia Maraini.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Fregene Prize for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.
