Oliva Denaro
14.99 €
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Oliva Denaro
14.99 €
"I'm not attracted to weddings. That's why I don't walk the streets, but run: male interest is like the wind, but with hands - he's just waiting to reach me."
Viola Ardone's novel is about the formation of personality. About a girl who wanted to be free in an era when being born a woman was a sentence. The author surprisingly turns a real story into an artistic one, a story about the contradictions of love, the relationship between fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, about desire, which is both attractive and frightening, especially if it is realized by force.
About the Author:
Viola Ardone was born in Naples in 1974 to a family of teachers. She received her higher education in philology at the local Friedrich II University, one of the oldest in the world. After graduating, she worked for some time in a publishing house producing educational literature, then began teaching Latin and Italian in secondary schools.
Ardone's debut novel La ricetta del cuore in subbuglio (Prescription for a Heart in Turmoil) was published in 2012, followed by Una rivoluzione sentimentale (Sentimental Revolution, 2016). In 2017, Ardone wrote a story in verse for children, Cyrano dal naso strano (Cyrano with a strange nose), illustrated by Luca Dalisi.
Between 2013 and 2018, as part of the Juvenile Penal Institute (Juvenile Penal Institute) writing workshop on the island of Nisida, she participated in several short story collections and worked on the novel L'ultima prova ("The Last Test") by the collective I Nisidiani.
Ardone is best known for her novels "The Children's Train" and "Oliva Denaro", published by the most famous Italian publishing house Einaudi and subsequently translated into several dozen languages. The books became international bestsellers, their total circulation exceeded 360,000 copies. In addition to books, Viola writes articles for periodicals, including Corriere del Mezzogiorno, la Repubblica, and L'Espresso.
Viola Ardone's novel is about the formation of personality. About a girl who wanted to be free in an era when being born a woman was a sentence. The author surprisingly turns a real story into an artistic one, a story about the contradictions of love, the relationship between fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, about desire, which is both attractive and frightening, especially if it is realized by force.
About the Author:
Viola Ardone was born in Naples in 1974 to a family of teachers. She received her higher education in philology at the local Friedrich II University, one of the oldest in the world. After graduating, she worked for some time in a publishing house producing educational literature, then began teaching Latin and Italian in secondary schools.
Ardone's debut novel La ricetta del cuore in subbuglio (Prescription for a Heart in Turmoil) was published in 2012, followed by Una rivoluzione sentimentale (Sentimental Revolution, 2016). In 2017, Ardone wrote a story in verse for children, Cyrano dal naso strano (Cyrano with a strange nose), illustrated by Luca Dalisi.
Between 2013 and 2018, as part of the Juvenile Penal Institute (Juvenile Penal Institute) writing workshop on the island of Nisida, she participated in several short story collections and worked on the novel L'ultima prova ("The Last Test") by the collective I Nisidiani.
Ardone is best known for her novels "The Children's Train" and "Oliva Denaro", published by the most famous Italian publishing house Einaudi and subsequently translated into several dozen languages. The books became international bestsellers, their total circulation exceeded 360,000 copies. In addition to books, Viola writes articles for periodicals, including Corriere del Mezzogiorno, la Repubblica, and L'Espresso.
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