Mario Desiati

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• Spatriati

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  Strega 2022 · ★ Winner

  Spatriati

  Spatriati

  Mario Desiati · 44 when first published

  Novel · 277 pages · Coming of age, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:In a corner of rural Puglia, young people from the small provincial middle class are torn between a difficult love for their homeland and the urge to escape to big, inhospitable cities.

• Ternitti

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  Strega 2011 · Shortlist

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  Mario Desiati · 34 when first published

  Novel · 258 pages · Migration, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1975, fifteen-year-old Mimì leaves the Puglia coast to follow her father to a Swiss factory making asbestos cement. Years later, back home with a teenage daughter and no man, she faces what the dust has done to her people.