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The Italian author Michela Murgia presents La Mar de Letras his novel 'The Finisher', supported by the Italian critics and the public. A powerful story in the words of Murgia, which has dominated for weeks the lists of bestsellers throughout the country and has won numerous awards including the Premio Campiello, the most prestigious of Italian literature.
Murgia this morning the novel to the media at a press conference, accompanied by the coordinator of La Mar de Letras, Lola Fernandez.
She has been happy for its success in what is his first novel, and also for preparing the film version.
'The Finisher' will be filmed soon, is currently shooting and will be starring Spanish actress Angeles Molina, as announced by the author, although he explained that the shooting was not involved, they will be happy to see her in As it opens.
This afternoon at 19.00 hours, Michela Murgia presents 'The Finisher' in CajaMurcia Cultural Center and will offer a literary reading workshops for the People's University of Cartagena, under the coordination of Lola Isabel Hernandez and Fernandez.
DEATH AND MATERNITY HISTORY FOCUS 'The Finisher'
'The Finisher' tells the story of Urrai Bonaria, a woman whose profession is the official dressmaker, but it plays another task more difficult, the finisher, which helps the dying to cross into the afterlife.
But history, more than a debate on euthanasia, addresses the relationship between death and motherhood, as outlined by the author herself.
The protagonist takes Listru Mary, daughter of a poor widow and handles it with the consent of the mother, thus proving that motherhood does not necessarily have to have blood, explained Murgia.
The relationship between the two is the core of the novel, which unfolds within a coastal town in Sardinia, the very town where the author was born and currently resides.
SORENI is the name of town where the community accepts as normal the existence of the finisher and the office that plays not conceived as something monstrous, and therein lies the provocative force of the story.
The story is inspired by an ancient tradition of Sardinia, and even the Mediterranean, which ensures the existence of the accompanying figure of the dying and an official funeral usually always correspond to a woman. While there are texts to prove its existence is a tradition handed down orally, Murgia said.
A similar figure would be in Spain The mourner, who accompanied the last cry, and in Italy, L'attittadora, a job that was identified with the last milk was given to the dying.
THE AUTHOR
Michela Murgia born in 1972 in Cabras (Sardinia), where he still lives.
He graduated at a technical school and studied theology.
Published Il mondo deve sapere (2006), a newspaper in the form of tragicomedy about a month of work that inspired the film by Paolo Virzi Tutta la vita davanti and Viaggio in Sardegna.
Nell'isola Percorsi Undici che non if Bede (Einaudi, 2008), an atypical guide on the island.
'The Finisher', his first novel, has become a big hit with critics and audiences.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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