| Sealed in Stone Contributor(s): Maraini, Toni (Author), Moravia, Alberto (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0872863883 ISBN-13: 9780872863880 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2002 Annotation: Set in the 15th century just after the Hundred Years' War, this historical novel of ideas traces the intersecting lives of a Turkish adventurer, an idealistic Lombard revolutionary, an intellectual heretic from Bohemia, and a woman disappointed in love and with her limited options. Agnese chooses to spend 47 years in a cell, looking out on the bustling public life of the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents, where she seeks to confront the oppressions of an age marked by war, famine, disease, and brutal injustice-an age much like our own. Toni Maraini is an Italian poet, novelist, and art critic. She grew up in an literary family in Sicily, and has lived in Paris, London, Casablanca, and New York. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001042126 |
| Series: City Lights Italian Voices |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.34" W x 6.9" (0.36 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From inside her cell in the wall of the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents, Alix, a young Parisian recluse, observes a tumultuous world of thieves and scoundrels, rebels, heretics and pilgrims. Set during the Hundred Year's War and based on the historical figure of Alix la Bourgotte, Sealed in Stone traces the intersecting lives of a vagabond Turkish sailor, a Bohemian intellectual, the amazing Alix and a young rebel from Lombardy who finds himself powerfully drawn to her. Toni Maraini's Sealed in Stone, an allegorical novel set in the heart of medieval Paris, radiantly portrays the triumph of the soul over the darkness of existence. An extraordinary achievement.--Lucia A. Blackstone . . . a strange and necessary novel.--Alberto Moravia Toni Maraini is an Italian poet, novelist and art critic. She grew up in an literary family in Sicily, and has lived in Paris, London, Casablanca and New York. She currently lives in Rome. |