A courageous, intimate, and powerful memoir; an ode to life despite its darker moments.
Born on a dark and stormy night in Trieste, where the violent Bora wind demolishes everything in its wake, Tamaro was abandoned by her father and rejected by her mother, a childhood plagued by a sense of emptiness and isolation. She discovered the world through beauty, nature, love, friendship, poetry, and literature. Displaced by a terrifying earthquake, she lived in Rome during Italy’s violent years of terrorism, and finally found freedom through writing.
Rights sold:
Germany (Piper Verlag)
Macedonia (Matica Makedonska)
Portugal (Presença)
Slovenia (ZTT-EST)
Spain (Planeta)
Turkey (Can)
Publisher: Il Battello a VaporeYear: 2023Pages: 208
Publisher: SolferinoYear: 2023Pages: 288
Publisher: LindauYear: 2022Pages: 144
Publisher: SolferinoYear: 2022Pages: 288
Publisher: SolferinoYear: 2021Pages: 150
Publisher: SolferinoYear: 2020Pages: 288
Publisher: SolferinoYear: 2019Pages: 122
Publisher: SolferinoYear: 2018Pages: 204
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2015Pages: 209
Publisher: Giunti JuniorYear: 2014Pages: 240
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2014Pages: 124
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2012Pages: 201
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2011Pages: 162
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2011Pages: 176
Publisher: Il Battello a VaporeYear: 2009Pages: 144
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2008Pages: 99
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2006Pages: 208
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2003Pages: 103
Publisher: BompianiYear: 2002Pages: 167
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Publisher: BompianiYear: 1999Pages: 76
Publisher: Il Battello a VaporeYear: 1998Pages: 135
Publisher: BompianiYear: 1997Pages: 305
Publisher: BompianiYear: 1997Pages: 185
Publisher: Giunti JuniorYear: 1995Pages: 192
Publisher: SolferinoYear: 1994Pages: 192
Publisher: Il Battello a VaporeYear: 1994Pages: 64
Publisher: Il Battello a VaporeYear: 1992Pages: 154