by Margaret Mazzantini · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788831763943
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«Il catino di zinco» is the novel by Margaret Mazzantini, published by Marsilio in 1994 (141 pages, in Italian).
The book focuses on Antenora, the author's grandmother, a woman from an archaic world who exercises domestic matriarchy with firm values and intense feelings. War, fascism, and the postwar period do not break her. After her death, one winter morning, the granddaughter tries to reconstruct her and understand how she herself was in a hostile environment.
The novel belongs to the Tascabili Marsilio collection, Narrativa series, and its ISBN-13 is 9788831763943.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction interested in family memory and female characters.
Margaret Mazzantini is an Italian-Irish writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980, starring in the cult horror classic Antropophagus. She has also appeared on television and in the theatre. As a successful writer, her novels include Non ti muovere, which was adapted into the namesake film and is directed by her husband Sergio Castellitto and stars Penélope Cruz. Her career as a writer and actress has earned her several awards and nominations, including Campiello Awards, a Golden Ticket Award, and a Goya Award.
