The book: Grottole, near Matera: in a little-explored South, the extraordinary and everyday events of the Falcone family, a family to whom fate gives everything and spares nothing, from war to emigration, from wealth to hunger, through public scandals and individual passions. From the progenitor Don Francesco, with his buried and no longer found barrels of gold, to the last descendant, Gioia, who more than a century later gathers the family memories. The portrait of a terrestrial world, harsh and magnificent. A constellation of characters caught in the pivotal moments of their existence. Their willingness or not to come to terms with life. The 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 finally conquered by challenging even romantic love and its traps. Winner of the 2007 Premio Campiello, 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 2007 Premio Campiello. Also for Einaudi, she later published the investigations of Imma Tataranni: Like Plants Among the Stones (2009, 2018, and 2021), Bad Weather (2013, 2018, and 2021), Rione Serra Venerdì (2018 and 2021), Via del Riscatto (2019 and 2021), and Ecchecavolo (2021). From these thrillers, the television series aired on Rai 1 Imma Tataranni - Deputy Prosecutor, which reached its second season with extraordinary public success.
