Dacia Maraini is something of a national treasure in Italy. The author of more than 50 books, a director of stage and screen, and an outspoken feminist, Maraini has never been afraid of controversy. The Silent Duchess won prestigious awards in Italy upon its publication there in , and has since been translated into 14 languages. It tells the story of Marianna Ucria, an 18th-century noblewoman who is both deaf Cited by: 2. A handicapped woman makes something of herself in 18th century Sicily. Deaf and dumb Marianna Ucria is married to an aging uncle at thirteen. When he dies she takes over management of their estate, is successful and finds true love. The novel has been translated into fourteen bltadwin.ru Interaction Count: But she remains silent and trembling, clinging to the folds of her father's robes." "Set in the mid-eighteenth century, Dacia Maraini's unforgettable novel tells the story of three generations of the Ucria family, seen through the watchful eyes of the young Duchess Marianna/5(2).
The Silent Duchess ebook By Dacia Maraini. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. ISBN. Author. Dacia Maraini. The publication in America of Maraini's The Silent Duchess, originally issued in Italy as La hunga vita di Marianna Ucria (), is cause for rejoicing. Episodic and essentially plotless, but propell. The Silent Duchess, by Dacia Maraini. Posted on Septem Septem. A book about reading books. I don't know how I found it. I don't know why I read it. But I did, and I'm so glad that I did. The novel follows the life and times of Marianna Ucria, a duchess in late 17 th and early 18 th century Sicily. She has been deaf.
But she remains silent and trembling, clinging to the folds of her father's robes." "Set in the mid-eighteenth century, Dacia Maraini's unforgettable novel tells the story of three generations of the Ucria family, seen through the watchful eyes of the young Duchess Marianna. Dacia Maraini: La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (The Silent Duchess) This is a story about an eighteenth century Sicilian duchess. Like others of her period, class and sex, she has the standard life. She lives a sheltered life but sees the violence around her. She marries an older relative when she is only thirteen, gives birth to several children, reads, becomes a widow and tries to have some sort of post-marital life. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JAN 4, The publication in America of Maraini's The Silent Duchess, originally issued in Italy as La hunga vita di Marianna Ucria (), is cause for rejoicing. Episodic and essentially plotless, but propelled by an inner tension, this unusual historical novel about the splendid but squalid Sicilian aristocracy of the early 18th century comes closer to belles lettres than a conventional novel.
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