by Diane Setterfield · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788804567684
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«La tredicesima storia» is the mystery novel by Diane Setterfield, published by Mondadori in hardback (412 pages, in Italian).
Margaret Lea, a young antiquarian bookseller, receives a letter from Vida Winter, a famous and elusive writer, who chooses her as her biographer. In the author's isolated mansion she discovers the secrets of the Angelfield family and of an unpublished tale. Thus begins an intense friendship between two women of different generations, united by fiction.
Originally published as The Thirteenth Tale, this Italian edition is translated by Giovanna Granato. It won the ALA Alex Award and the Quill Award for debut author.
For readers of gothic novels, family mysteries, and stories about books and the power of storytelling.
Diane Setterfield is an English author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. Setterfield won the 2007 Quill Award, debut author of the year, for the novel. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with echoes of Brontë sisters' Jane Eyre (1847) and Wuthering Heights (1847).
