Bagheria

Published
Sep 2013
Main Genre
Historical Historical

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An exploration of the landscape of early memory

After 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 which she returned as a child after two horrific years of internment.

Villa Valguarnera recalls the memory of Maraini's spiritual struggles and her rebellion against her elitist social class. She also discusses her experience of child abuse. Bagheria is a tale of corruption: Centuries of the town's past unfold alongside Maraini's family history as she details the involvement of the mafia in the architectural decimation of Bagheria in the 1970s.

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First Edition Sep 2013 RCS Libri ISBN13 9781480442139 ISBN10 1480442135
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Sep 2013 RCS Libri/Rizzoli ISBN10 B00EZEXA72
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