Bøger af Melania G. Mazzucco

Vita er blot ni år da hun i 1903 sammen med Diamante på tolv bliver sendt af sted fra Napoli med skib mod USA med drømmen om et bedre liv for sig selv og familien. Slægtsroman om den italienske immigration i starten af 1900-tallet. ”Det sker engang imellem, at man bliver fuldstændig blæst omkuld af en roman. Sådan en roman er Vita. (…) Vita har klassikerformat.” ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Henriette Bacher Lind, Jyllands-Posten ”ITALIENSK MESTERVÆRK Hvis du har svært ved at beslutte dig for, hvad din næste læseoplevelse skal være, så kommer svaret her: italienske Melania G. Mazzuccos prisvindende vidunderlige familie- og immigranthistorie, i hvilken måske nok troen og håbet, men aldrig kærligheden, falmer.” EEEEEE Marie Louise Wedel Bruun, ELLE

One day in 1624, a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, treasures in his desk a tooth from that whale, which later his daughter, Plautilla, will keep all her life, along with the indelible memory of the animal that she saw as a child on that beach. We are in the Rome of baroque splendor, the Rome of the popes, the Rome of intrigues, fanaticism, violence, and plague. Giovanni is a painter and musician. Plautilla is his second daughter destined to be an important woman. Her father will educate her in the art of painting, and she will end up becoming an architect, the first female architect in modern history.

A perfectly balanced retelling of one of Shakespeare's best plays