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Title: Silent Duchess (Us)
Author: Dacia Maraini
ISBN: 9781558611948
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Publisher Description: Finalist for the International Man Booker Prize, winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award upon its first English-language publication in the UK, and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this mesmerizing historical novel by one of Italy's premier women writers is available in the United States for the first time. <p/><i>The Silent Duchess</i> is the story of Marianna Ucrìa, the victim of a mysterious childhood trauma that has left her deaf and mute, trapped in a world of silence. In luminous language that conveys both the keen visual sight and the deep human insight possessed by her remarkable main character, Dacia Maraini captures the splendor and the corruption of Marianna's world and the strength of her unbreakable spirit.
Author: Dacia Maraini
ISBN: 9781558611948
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Publisher Description: Finalist for the International Man Booker Prize, winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award upon its first English-language publication in the UK, and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this mesmerizing historical novel by one of Italy's premier women writers is available in the United States for the first time. <p/><i>The Silent Duchess</i> is the story of Marianna Ucrìa, the victim of a mysterious childhood trauma that has left her deaf and mute, trapped in a world of silence. In luminous language that conveys both the keen visual sight and the deep human insight possessed by her remarkable main character, Dacia Maraini captures the splendor and the corruption of Marianna's world and the strength of her unbreakable spirit.
