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La scrittrice abita qui
“The Writer Lives Here” (title translated by AI)
Sandra Petrignani (born 1952)
English editions
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Part pilgrimage and part séance, a journey through the house museums of the great women writers of the twentieth century: Grazia Deledda's Sardinia, Marguerite Yourcenar's Maine, Colette's France, Alexandra David-Néel in Provence and the Himalayas, Karen Blixen between Kenya and Denmark, Virginia Woolf's England. In each place the narrator looks for the writer in her furniture and objects, her diaries, the chair she sat in, her lucky charms, and in the people who still remember her: Yourcenar's apples and her dog, the Tibetan temple recreated in Digne, the fairies of Deledda's Barbagia, the gramophone Blixen brought back from Africa.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 221 pages in the original
- Set in
- Italy, United States, France, Denmark, United Kingdom
- First published
- 2002 by Neri Pozza
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9788873058410 (original)
- More
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