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Vita

Vita

Melania G. Mazzucco (born 1966)

Translated by Virginia Jewiss

English editions

In English

• Vita

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 1 September 2005 · 448 pages

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In 1903 Vita, nine, and her distant cousin Diamante, twelve, land in New York among thousands of Italians dreaming of a better future. From the poverty of a village in the south they are thrown into a chaotic, hostile modern city. Vita is rebellious, possessive and untamable, Diamante silent, proud and reckless. They grow up fast in a merciless world of exploitation, violence and exclusion, between the criminal temptations of the city and the endless loneliness of the great plains. Yet they also discover the power of words and a feeling strong enough to survive separation, war and the years.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

397 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Italy, 1903 onwards

First published

2003 by Rizzoli

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788817871624 (original)

9780374284954 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

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