"An unusual story about a gifted but doomed young artist that grows in poignancy as it accelerates towards its tragic end."
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Michael Peppiatt, author of Francis Bacon in Your Blood and In Giacometti’s Studio
“Anna Maria Ortese was the last great writer of the generation that produced Italo Calvino and Primo Levi. Today, few critics would disagree with the poet Andrea Zanzotto, who rates her as ‘one of the most important Italian women writers of this century.’”
The Independent