by Alberto Bevilacqua · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804368144
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«Una scandalosa giovinezza» is the contemporary fiction novel by Alberto Bevilacqua, published by Mondadori in paperback (272 pages, in Italian).
Zelia Grossi is a woman whose youth is marked by scandal and prostitution. The novel follows her journey from Parma and the Po Delta to the Abyssinian War, ending in Addis Ababa, where she confronts the reality of the conflict. Bevilacqua weaves together characters and settings to explore human resilience in a time of change.
Published in 1993, this edition is part of Mondadori's Oscar bestsellers collection (no. 303).
Aimed at the general public interested in contemporary literary fiction and Italian narrative with historical background.
Alberto Bevilacqua was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, who read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the Journal of Parma, began to publish his stories in the early 1950s.
