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Vita (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312425869)
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Melania G. Mazzucco
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xA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, are sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make a life for themselves in America. Theirs is an unforgettable love story, a riveting tale of immigrant survival and hope that takes them from the crime-ridden tenements of Little Italy to the brutal rail yards of the Midwest, on paths that cross with the Black Hand, Caruso, and Chaplin. It is a story that reaches across decades, to the son of Vita, who would travel as far as Italy to find his roots and the man who could have been his father. In Vita, the author, Melania G. Mazzucco, also tells her own story of how she found Diamante and Vita in old photographs, documents, ship manifests, and the fading memories of her relatives, and from these fragments of the past imagined this gripping epic fiction of her family's history.Author: Melania G. Mazzucco
ISBN-10: 0312425864
ISBN-13: 9780312425869
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2006
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/29/2006 pg. 32
By Melania G. Mazzucco
xMelania G. Mazzucco was born in Rome in 1966. She earned a degree in Italian literature from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a degree in cinema from the Experimental Center for Cinematography. In addition to her four novels, she has written award-winning works for the cinema, theater, and radio. Vita was awarded the 2003 Strega Prize, Italy's leading literary award.
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