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Your Little Matter
Dove non mi hai portata
Maria Grazia Calandrone (born 1964)
Translated by Antonella Lettieri
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Your Little Matter
Foundry Editions · United Kingdom · June 2024
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In the summer of 1965 Lucia and Giuseppe arrive in Rome with their eight-month-old daughter. They are in love, but cannot shake the unease of people being hunted: Lucia has fled a violent husband she was forced to marry, and under the law of the time their life together is a crime. They leave the baby in the park of Villa Borghese and then take their own lives. More than fifty years later that child, now a poet, goes back to the places where her mother lived, worked and loved, from rural Molise to the outskirts of Milan in the boom years, and with the help of old newspaper reports reconstructs their story.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 247 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1950s–1960s
- First published
- 2022 by Einaudi
- Author's age
- 58 when first published
- ISBN
9788806257477 (original)
9781738446322 (Foundry Editions, United Kingdom)