La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa
Sexual abuse victims
Deaf
Italy, fiction
Child sexual abuse
Nobility
Young women
Fiction, historical
Fiction, historical, general
Economic conditions
New York Times reviewed
Women
Social conditions
History
Fiction
In early 18th century Sicily, noblewoman Marianna Ucrìa is trapped in a world of silence after a terrible childhood trauma left her deaf and mute. Married off to a lecherous uncle, she struggles to educate and elevate herself against all convention—and find her true place in a world that sees her as…
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