by Helena Janeczek · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788823518353
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«La ragazza con la Leica» is the biographical novel by Helena Janeczek, published by Guanda in paperback (335 pages, in Italian).
Biographical novel about Gerda Taro, a photographer who died in the Spanish Civil War. Through Ruth, Willy and Georg, who knew her, it reconstructs her flight from Nazi Germany, her work with Robert Capa and the Paris of the 1930s, between the rise of fascism and the passion for photojournalism.
Part of the Narratori della Fenice collection. Winner of the 2018 Strega Prize and the 2018 Bagutta Prize, nominated for the 2018 Campiello Prize.
For readers of biographical and historical fiction, with an interest in the Spanish Civil War, photojournalism and the figure of Gerda Taro.
Helena Janeczek is an Italian novelist of Polish Jewish origin.
