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About Melania G. Mazzucco
See more books from this AuthorThe hardscrabble journey of two immigrants to Ellis Island from Naples in 1903 form the backbone of Italian novelist Mazzucco’s long-winded tale: the not-yet-12-year-old boy called Diamante and his nine-year-old cousin Vita, disgorged along with 2,000 other passengers from the Republic, and summo...
| Read Full Review of Vita: A NovelInspired storytelling drives this fictionalized narrative, which follows the Italian author's family to 1903 Ellis Island, where 12-year-old Diamante Mazzucco and his cousin Vita, age nine, evo
Jul 18 2005 | Read Full Review of Vita: A NovelWhile Vita's life in her new country is often no less traumatic and devastating than Diamante's, she learns to trust in what she thinks is the great lesson of the American experience: have an unshakeable faith in a better tomorrow.This uniquely crafted work is a modern woman's attempt to rediscov...
Feb 27 2016 | Read Full Review of Vita: A Novel“The image of that city rising from the water and aiming straight for the sky will stay with him for the rest of his life - so near and yet so unreachable.” This novel written by Melania Mazzucco became an international publishing sensation with the rights were sold in 11 countries, 300,000 copie...
Sep 24 2007 | Read Full Review of Vita: A NovelAn aggregated and normalized score based on 15 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes