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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1994
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Creating shockwaves when first published in Italy in the 1980s, this is a historical novel based on a true account of a grisly murder in turn-of-the-century Verona. In her relentless narrative based on interviews and contemporary accounts, Maraini ha...



  • The stunning English translation of the International Man Booker Prize Finalist novel hailed as “a story of grace and endurance, not mere survival” (The New York Times Book Review).   Winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Inde...



  • The award-winning author of Darkness interweaves the stories of Viollca, a preadolescent sold into prostitution; Tano, who brings charges of abuse against his father; and Adele-Sofia, a tender-hearted police commissioner....



  • In Italy, as in most Western cultures, the 1960s was a dynamic and turbulent decade of social change. Dacia Maraini, in this short story collection, explores the vexing, tragic, and often humorous experiences of women living in modern urban Italy...





  • WOMAN AT WAR is the diary of a woman's growing self-awareness. Beginning as a passively absent narrator, Vannina encounters a fascinating array of characters during the holiday she takes on an island in the Bay of Naples with her husband, Giacinto. W...



  • 1956: Amara, a young Italian journalist, is sent to report on the growing political divide between East and West in post-war central Europe. She also has a more personal mission: to find out what happened to Emanuele, her childhood friend and soulmat...



  • An exploration of the landscape of early memoryAfter being imprisoned with her family in a Japanese concentration camp, Dacia Maraini returns to her past. In sensuous detail, she describes Sicily, the town of Bagheria, and the ancestral villa to whic...



  • An open door, a pair of blue tennis shoes, the sharp smell of disinfectant in the room -- a woman killed by twenty stab wounds. A journalist at a private radio station is conducting a survey on violence against women. As she uncovers more information...






  • This book is a collection of four theatrical works around such themes as distress, exclusion, tragedy, and society’s expectations of women. It is particularly suitable for students of Italian language, gender studies, and modern Italian literature ...



  • An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are t...



  • Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eag...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dacia Maraini has published 12 books.

The next book by Dacia Maraini, Life, Brazen and Garish, will be published in April 2024.

The first book by Dacia Maraini, Isolina, was published in December 1994.

No. Dacia Maraini does not write books in series.