Vita (2003)

by Melania G. Mazzucco

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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.

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The award-winning Italian author Melania G. Mazzucco weaves her own family history into a great American novel of the immigrant experience. A sweeping tale of discovery, love, and loss, Vita is a passionate blend of biography and autobiography, of fantasy and fiction.(goodreads)

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Smits, Manon	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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America does not exist. I know because I've been there. - Alain Resnais, Mon oncle d'Amerique

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To Roberto, my father

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This place is no longer a place, this landscape no longer a landscape.

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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.

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