Bagheria

by Dacia Maraini

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Pub Date Sep 24 2013 | Archive Date Dec 02 2013

Open Road Integrated Media | RCS Libri/Rizzoli

General Fiction (Adult)

Description

In Bagheria, Dacia Maraini revisits the landscape of early memory. She describes Sicily in sensuous detail, the town of Bagheria, and the ancestral villa to which she returned as a child after two horrific years of imprisonment with her family in a Japanese concentration camp.

The Villa Valguarnera recalls Maraini’s spiritual struggles and her rebellion against the elitism of her class. She also discusses her experience of child abuse.Bagheria is a tale of corruption: centuries of the town’s past unfold alongside Maraini’s family history as she details the involvement of the mafia in the architectural decimation of Bagheria in the 1970s.

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A Note From the Publisher

Dacia Maraini is among the most important Italian writers. She is the author of many novels, short stories, plays, poetry collections, autobiographical narratives, and essays, published by Rizzoli, and her work has been translated and sold in twenty countries. In 1990 she won the Campiello Prize for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (The long life of Marianna Ucrìa, translated as The Silent Duchess, 1992), and the Strega Prize in 1999 for Buio. In 2011 she was named a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, and she was awarded the Campiello Prize for her career in 2012.

Dacia Maraini is among the most important Italian writers. She is the author of many novels, short stories, plays, poetry collections, autobiographical narratives, and essays, published by Rizzoli...