The book: Grottole, near Matera: in a less explored South, the extraordinary and everyday events of the Falcone family, a family whose destiny gives everything and spares nothing, from war to emigration, from wealth to hunger, passing through public scandals and individual rages. From the patriarch don Francesco, with his buried barrels of gold that were never found, to the latest descendant, Gioia, who more than a century later gathers the family memories. The portrait of a terrestrial, harsh, and magnificent world. A constellation of characters captured in the salient moments of their existence. Their willingness or unwillingness to make deals with life. Imagination used to accept reality. And then the end of a world. Fathers and sons, but above all mothers and daughters, expectations and betrayals. Loves, political ideals, struggles, disappointments. The vitality of a people and a desire to live ultimately conquered by challenging even romantic love and its traps. Winner of the Campiello Prize 2007, A Thousand Years I've Been Here has been translated into twenty countries. The author: Mariolina Venezia was born in Matera and lives in Rome, where she works for cinema, theater, and television. With Einaudi she published A Thousand Years I've Been Here, winner of the Campiello Prize 2007. Also for Einaudi, she subsequently published the investigations of Imma Tataranni: Like Plants Among the Stones (2009, 2018 and 2021), Maltempo (2013, 2018 and 2021), Rione Serra Venerdì (2018 and 2021), Via del Riscatto (2019 and 2021) and Ecchecavolo (2021). From these mysteries, the television series aired on Rai 1 Imma Tataranni - Substitute Prosecutor, has reached its second season with extraordinary public success.
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The book: Grottole, near Matera: in a less explored South, the extraordinary and everyday events of the Falcone family, a family whose destiny gives everything and spares nothing, from war to emigration, from wealth to hunger, passing through public scandals and individual rages. From the patriarch don Francesco, with his buried barrels of gold that were never found, to the latest descendant, Gioia, who more than a century later gathers the family memories. The portrait of a terrestrial, harsh, and magnificent world. A constellation of characters captured in the salient moments of their existence. Their willingness or unwillingness to make deals with life. Imagination used to accept reality. And then the end of a world. Fathers and sons, but above all mothers and daughters, expectations and betrayals. Loves, political ideals, struggles, disappointments. The vitality of a people and a desire to live ultimately conquered by challenging even romantic love and its traps. Winner of the Campiello Prize 2007, A Thousand Years I've Been Here has been translated into twenty countries. The author: Mariolina Venezia was born in Matera and lives in Rome, where she works for cinema, theater, and television. With Einaudi she published A Thousand Years I've Been Here, winner of the Campiello Prize 2007. Also for Einaudi, she subsequently published the investigations of Imma Tataranni: Like Plants Among the Stones (2009, 2018 and 2021), Maltempo (2013, 2018 and 2021), Rione Serra Venerdì (2018 and 2021), Via del Riscatto (2019 and 2021) and Ecchecavolo (2021). From these mysteries, the television series aired on Rai 1 Imma Tataranni - Substitute Prosecutor, has reached its second season with extraordinary public success.
