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The book: Grottole, near Matera: in a little-explored South, the extraordinary and everyday events of the Falcone family, a family to whom fate gives everything and spares nothing, from war to emigration, from wealth to hunger, passing through public scandals and individual passions. From the progenitor Don Francesco, with his barrels of gold buried and never found again, to the last descendant, Gioia, who more than a century later gathers the family memories. The portrait of a terrestrial world, harsh and magnificent. A constellation of characters caught in the pivotal moments of their existence. Their willingness or unwillingness to come to terms with life. The imagination used to accept reality. And then the end of a world. Fathers and sons, but especially mothers and daughters, expectations and betrayals. Loves, political ideals, struggles, disappointments. The vitality of a people and a desire to live finally conquered by challenging even romantic love and its traps. Winner of the 2007 Premio Campiello, Mille anni che sto qui has been translated into twenty countries. The author: Mariolina Venezia was born in Matera and lives in Rome, where she works for cinema, theater, and television. With Einaudi, she published Mille anni che sto qui, winner of the 2007 Premio Campiello. Also for Einaudi, she subsequently published the investigations of Imma Tataranni: Come piante tra i sassi (2009, 2018, and 2021), Maltempo (2013, 2018, and 2021), Rione Serra Venerdì (2018 and 2021), Via del Riscatto (2019 and 2021), and Ecchecavolo (2021). From these detective stories, the television series aired on Rai 1 Imma Tataranni - Deputy Prosecutor, has reached its second season with extraordinary public success.