by Dacia Maraini · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817114110
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«La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa» is the historical novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Rizzoli in paperback (264 pages, in Italian).
Set in eighteenth-century Sicily, it tells the life of Marianna Ucrìa, a young deaf-mute noblewoman who learns to read and write and develops her own view of the world. Through her, the novel explores female oppression, imposed silence, and the construction of identity against destiny.
Winner of the 1990 Premio Campiello. This edition belongs to the Superbur Classici (BUR) collection, number 111.
For readers of historical fiction and Italian narrative, and for those interested in the female condition and individual freedom.
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.
