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 rages. From the patriarch don Francesco, with his buried barrels of gold that were never found again, to the last descendant, Gioia, who more than a century later gathers the family memories. The portrait of an earthly world, harsh and magnificent. A constellation of characters captured at the key moments of their lives. Whether or not they come to terms with life. Imagination used to accept reality. And then the end of a world. Fathers and sons, but above all mothers and daughters, expectations and betrayals. Loves, political ideals, struggles, disappointments. The vitality of a people and a desire to live finally won by challenging even romantic love and its traps. Winner of the Campiello Prize 2007, A thousand years I've been here has been translated into twenty countries. Mariolina Venezia was born in Matera and lives in Rome, where she works in film, theatre and television. With Einaudi she published A thousand years I've been here, winner of the Campiello Prize 2007. Also for Einaudi she later 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 crime novels the television series Imma Tataranni - Deputy Prosecutor was made, broadcast on Rai 1, which reached its second season with extraordinary audience success.
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 rages. From the patriarch don Francesco, with his buried barrels of gold that were never found again, to the last descendant, Gioia, who more than a century later gathers the family memories. The portrait of an earthly world, harsh and magnificent. A constellation of characters captured at the key moments of their lives. Whether or not they come to terms with life. Imagination used to accept reality. And then the end of a world. Fathers and sons, but above all mothers and daughters, expectations and betrayals. Loves, political ideals, struggles, disappointments. The vitality of a people and a desire to live finally won by challenging even romantic love and its traps. Winner of the Campiello Prize 2007, A thousand years I've been here has been translated into twenty countries. Mariolina Venezia was born in Matera and lives in Rome, where she works in film, theatre and television. With Einaudi she published A thousand years I've been here, winner of the Campiello Prize 2007. Also for Einaudi she later 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 crime novels the television series Imma Tataranni - Deputy Prosecutor was made, broadcast on Rai 1, which reached its second season with extraordinary audience success.
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