by Dacia Maraini · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817118514
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«Dolce per sé» is the epistolary novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Rizzoli in paperback (185 pages, in Italian).
Vera, a fifty-year-old playwright, writes letters to Flavia, the young niece of Edoardo, a violinist and former love. Over seven years, between 1988 and 1995, she unfolds the relationship in them: concerts, travels, wordplay and domestic legends, while echoes of her own childhood surface.
The work received the Brancati Prize in 1997 and this 1999 edition belongs to the BUR Superbur collection (number 287).
It will appeal to readers of contemporary Italian fiction and to those who enjoy epistolary stories about memory and love.
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.
