Title : The Fragile Age - Donatella Di Pietrantonio - book

Summary :

Madame Figaro 2025 Heroine Grand Prix Selection

"[With this novel] Donatella di Pietrantonio confirms herself as one of the most powerful narrators of contemporary Italian literature." The World of Books

" This intense, intricately structured novel, winner of the Strega and Strega Giovani prizes, is inspired by a femicide that made headlines in Italy in 1997. Bibliobs

" The Italian novelist delivers a story imbued with the painful memory of a tragedy, in tense, powerful prose, carried by the landscapes of Abruzzo ." Sud Ouest

The novel phenomenon in Italy - Strega Prize and Strega Giovani Prize 2024.

Lucia never left her village in Abruzzo . Yet, thirty years earlier, she witnessed a terrible crime there. Today, her daughter Amanda, who has gone to study in Milan, is back with her. But the young woman doesn't leave her room and locks herself in an eerie silence. Powerless in the face of Amanda's distress, Lucia is suddenly confronted with her painful memories: the tragedy she did everything she could to forget resurfaces...

Between past and present, Donatella Di Pietrantonio's novel explores the fragility of family relationships and the powerful bond with this land of Abruzzo where the beauty and wildness of nature mingle.

This exceptional novel has become a phenomenon in Italy (more than 400,000 copies sold) receiving both the Strega Prize and the Strega Giovani Prize, the respective equivalents of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.

• EAN : 9782226492685
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