Portrait of a Family With a Fat Daughter

Describes over a century of Italian history and an extended matriarchal family, as told by Margherita Giacobino.

About the author

Margherita Giacobino, born in 1952, lives in Turin. She is a writer, journalist, academic and translator . She translated - among others - Emily Bronte, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde.
She made her debut in 1993 with the novel Un' Americana a Parigi written under the pseudonym of Elinor Rigby. !n 1996 she published Casalinghe All'Inferno, in 2007 L'Educazione Sentimentale Di C.B. and in 2010 L'Uovo Fuori Dal Cavagno.
The Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter published in Italy in 2015 has been translated into English, French and German.

Product details

• Authors: Margherita Giacobino, Mergherita Giacobino, Judith Landry
• Assisted by: Judith Landry (Translation)
• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2017
• EAN: 9781910213483
• ISBN: 978-1-910213-48-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Dedalus Europe; Dedalus Europe
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature