by Dacia Maraini · Mondolibri · tapa dura · ISBN 8022264874632
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«Trio» is the novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Mondolibri in hardback, in Italian.
Set in eighteenth-century Sicily during a plague epidemic, the novel follows the epistolary exchange between two women. Their friendship and feelings are put to the test when they both love the same man, in a story that interweaves the personal with the collective threat of illness.
The novel was published in 2020.
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.
