by Melania G. Mazzucco · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433970510
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«Vita» is the historical novel by Melania G. Mazzucco, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (544 pages, in Spanish).
In 1903, Diamante and Vita, two Italian children aged twelve and nine, arrive from a village to the New York ghetto, where they grow up amid hardship and hostility while their bond intensifies. Forty years later, Vita's American son searches in 1944 Italy for the man who should have been his father; the author drew on her family memories.
The work is volume 590 of the Panorama de narrativas collection, translated by Xavier González Rovira. It received the Strega Prize (2003) and the San Clemente Prize.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Italian emigration to the United States and in stories with a documentary basis.
Melania Gaia Mazzucco is an Italian author. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize.
