Vita
New Einaudi edition, originally published by Rizzoli in 2003.
Premio Strega 2003
Globe & Mail Book of the Year
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of the Year
International Prize Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente – Best Foreign Novel
“Vita is an extraordinary novel. It makes you stop, think and wonder. And that is exactly what great literature should do.”
Publishers Weekly
“Commanding and moving… Full of pungent fictional details.”
The New Yorker
In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, are sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make a life for themselves in America. Theirs is an unforgettable love story, a riveting tale of immigrant survival and hope that takes them from the crime-ridden tenements of Little Italy to the brutal rail yards of the Midwest, on paths that cross with the Black Hand, Caruso, and Chaplin. It is a story that reaches across decades, to the son of Vita, who would travel as far as Italy to find his roots and the man who could have been his father.
In Vita, Melania G. Mazzucco also tells her own story of how she found Diamante and Vita in old photographs, documents, ship manifests, and the fading memories of her relatives, and from these fragments of the past imagined this gripping epic fiction of her family’s history.
Publication date: 18.03.2014
Publisher: Einaudi - Super ET
Number of Pages: 472
Country: Italy
Albania
1 October 2016
Canada
1 January 2005
Denmark
21 February 2019
Finland
1 January 2004
France
1 January 2005
France
1 January 2004
Georgia
1 May 2019
Germany
1 January 2004
Hungary
1 January 2007
Israel
1 January 2005
Italy
18 March 2017
Italy
26 August 2011
Italy
12 February 2003
Romania
1 January 2006
South Korea
12 August 2010
Spain
11 June 2014
Spain
1 November 2004
Sweden
1 June 2016
Sweden
1 January 2009
The Netherlands
1 January 2009
The Netherlands
1 January 2005
Turkey
1 May 2007
US & UK
1 January 2006
US & UK
1 January 2005
Foreign rights sold in
Albania: Albas
Canada: HarperCollins
Denmark: Forlaget Palomar
Finland: Avain
France: Flammarion, J’ai lu, Editions du Club
Georgia: Sulakauri
Germany: Knaus
Hungary: Európa
Israel: Schocken
Korea: Random House Corea
Romania: Polirom
Spain: Anagrama
Sweden: Norsteds, Contempo
The Netherlands and Belgium: Mouria
Turkey: Doğan Kitap
US and UK: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Picador
Audiovisual rights optioned
Italy
21 November 2023
Italy
9 May 2023
Italy
29 November 2022
Italy
7 June 2022
Italy
7 June 2022
Italy
4 November 2021
Italy
21 September 2021
Italy
4 May 2021
Italy
4 May 2021
Italy
23 March 2021
Italy
16 March 2021
Italy
26 November 2019
Italy
18 October 2018
Italy
13 June 2017
Italy
25 October 2016
Italy
28 May 2015
Italy
18 November 2014
Italy
8 October 2013
Italy
20 November 2012
Italy
27 March 2012
Italy
1 March 2012
Italy
1 December 2011