Mariateresa Di Lascia

Mariateresa Di Lascia died a year before her seminal novel, A Walk in the Shadows, was published (translated into English by Jeanne Bonner). Her prose has been compared to that of Elsa Morante’s and Lampedusa’s.


Articles by Mariateresa Di Lascia

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Tuesday May 1

from A Walk in the Shadows

No threat or reprimand could calm our racing hearts and the restlessness spurred by a place where rules and prohibitions fell on us without weight, like a feather.