Favorita

Brash and obnoxious, Fila''s mother Magdalena caused chaos every time she appeared in her daughter''s life. But Fila hasn''t seen her in years, not since she disgraced their family by advertising her brothel in the newspaper. Until one day Fila picks up her grandmother''s mortadella-coloured telephone to a voice telling her that her mother is dead. And no matter what anyone says, the voice continues, she was murdered. Fila collects her mother''s ashes and sets out, urn in tow, to retrace the whirlwind life of the woman last known as Favorita. Part hallucinatory road trip, part feminist revenge fantasy, Favorita is a wild, furious and mischievous journey through Italy that will take your breath away.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Steinbeck
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.02.2026
• EAN: 9780571391578
• ISBN: 978-0-571-39157-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, FICTION / Feminist, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Street fiction / urban fiction