Winner · Premio Strega 2003
Vita
by Melania Mazzucco
novel by Melania Mazzucco
Arriving at Ellis Island, two poor children from Southern Italy, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, struggle to surive in New York City amid the poverty, opportunity, and crime of Italy.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- Italian
- Pages
- 433
- ISBN
- 9782080685902
- Subjects
- Italians, Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Large type books, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Italian americans, fiction
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