by Dacia Maraini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817096966
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«Tre donne» is the novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Rizzoli in paperback (207 pages, in Italian).
The story follows Gesuina, Maria and Lori, grandmother, mother and daughter who share a house during a man's prolonged absence. Gesuina, elderly and open to love, contrasts with Maria, a translator who escapes from reality; Lori, an adolescent, lives between confusion and rebellion. The arrival of a man throws that balance into crisis.
The subtitle of the work is «Una storia d'amore e disamore»; it was published in 2017 and is catalogued as Literature and Fiction.
It is a read for those who enjoy Italian narrative and stories featuring women of different generations.
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.
