Books by Maria Messina and Complete Book Reviews
Maria Messina, Author, John Shepley, Translator Marlboro Press $15.95 (133p) ISBN 978-0-910395-50-2
First published in Italy in 1921, this short novel is a dark, grim account of two Sicilian women's voluntary imprisonment in the elder's dull, dour marriage. Sisters Nicolina and Antonietta see their chance to flee their small Italian village when...
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Maria Messina, Author, Elise Magistro, Translator, Fred Gardaphe, Preface by , trans. from the Italian by Elise Magistro. Feminist $19.95 (196p) ISBN 978-1-55861-553-3
More than 60 years after her death, Sicilian realist Messina (1887–1944) gets her first English translation, 10 stories published between 1909 and 1928 that focus on the downtrodden, poor and middle-class women of her native island. Two...
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