The Art of Joy - Tapa blanda

Críticas

"Sapienza's prose is breathless throughout, urgent, driven forward by the twin engines of sex and history....It's a feast delivered on small plates." --NPR

"From its explosive, disturbing opening to the quiet cadences of its lyrical close, [The Art of Joy] is crammed with passion, ideas, adventure, and mystery." --San Francisco Chronicle

"This is the publishing event of the summer...As errant, excessive, and irresistible as the woman at its heart, The Art of Joy more than lives up to the title. Modesta's 'intense feeling for life' overcomes whatever obstacles the ideologies of 'sorrow, humiliation, and fear' can throw at her as she embraces 'life's fluidity.'" --Boyd Tonkin, The Independent (London)

Reseña del editor

A U.S. release of a long-anticipated posthumous novel, published to acclaim in France, traces the events of the 20th century through the experiences of Sicilian-born Modesta, who defies the conventions of her fascist, patriarchal society to rise from poverty and marry an aristocrat without compromising her deeply held values. 15,000 first printing.