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Donatella Di Pietrantonio

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Arsita, Teramo, Italy

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Donatella was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother Is a River is her first novel. It was first published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, was published in 2014 and won the Brancati Prize.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 52,761 ratings · 5,135 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	L'Arminuta 4.09 avg rating — 30,277 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'età fragile 3.63 avg rating — 11,356 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La casa in collina by Cesare Pavese, Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 9,012 ratings — published 1948 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Borgo Sud 3.74 avg rating — 7,056 ratings — published 2020 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mia madre è un fiume 3.55 avg rating — 1,901 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bella mia 3.87 avg rating — 1,727 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Ferite by Caterina Bonvicini (curator), Marco Balzano, Diego De Silva 3.32 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucciole, squaletti e un po' di pastina 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Napoli nessuna e centomila by Abdilatif Abdalla, Ali Charour, Roberto Andò 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cea care se întoarce by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Serenela Mureșan (Narrator), Mihaela Ganet - translator it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mia sorella. Come un fiore improbabile, cresciuto su un piccolo grumo di terra attaccato alla roccia. Da lei ho appreso la resistenza. Ora ci somigliamo meno nei tratti, ma é lo stesso il senso che troviamo in questo essere gettate nel mondo. Nella complicitá ci siamo salvate.”
― Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

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“I was an orphan with two living mothers.”
― Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

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“He never learned to defend himself, and if he happened into the middle of a scuffle by mistake he’d stand there, innocent and unmoving, exposed to accidental blows. No one ever hit him intentionally. One morning when I went to pick him up at school he had a cut on his cheekbone. The teacher explained that he’d been punched by a child who wasn’t aiming at him. Giuseppe had grabbed the hand, opened it, and observed it for a long time, as if in search of the nexus between its beauty and the pain it had given him. The classmate had stood still, letting himself be studied.”
― Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

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