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A Life Apart
La vita accanto
Mariapia Veladiano (born 1960)
Translated by Cristina Viti
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A Life Apart
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 25 April 2013 · 186 pages
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Rebecca is born irreparably ugly. Her mother refuses to hold her after the birth and withdraws into herself; her father lets it happen. She is cared for by her beautiful, impetuous aunt Erminia, whose affection hides something terrible, and by her tearful, loving nanny Maddalena. But Rebecca has perfect hands and a gift for the piano. Meeting the old Signora De Lellis, a famous musician who has long lived shut away at home, gives her a new view of the painful history of her family, the hypocrisy and cruelty around her, and the grace of a possible life of her own through music.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 170 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2011 by Einaudi
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9788806205980 (original)
9780857052339 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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