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Maraini: Acts of Photography, Acts of Love is an extraordinary selection of the photography of Fosco Maraini in a beautifully printed, multi-language, oversized hardcover edition. Maraini's career as an ethnologist, photographer, filmmaker, mountaineer, writer and professor spans a period of more than sixty years. Perhaps best known for his work on Tibet and Japan, Maraini has extensively photographed the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges of central Asia, Southeast Asia and the south of his native Italy. His work on Tibet and on the Ainu people of Northern Japan is perhaps the most important historical documentation of two lost cultures. The book includes several images from an unpublished body of photographs of southern Italy made shortly after World War II. Maraini includes four essays in three languages (English, Italian and Japanese) and over 100 black and white and color images. Rather than grouping the images by location or time, they have been intermixed. This not only reflects Maraini's eye, but also his vision of the world where spiritual, human and topographical qualities exist in only one true compartment-the world itself.

Inspiration for this collection was found in the rich Indian culture of handwoven jute rugs and is the result of a smart combination of a very natural looking jute yarn and a 100% recycled wool-look polyester. Ethnical inspired and geometric linear looks, intricate chevrons and abstract designs will enrich every home and create a cozy living space. Foldable and bespoke finishing with the shepherd's stitch to give each rug an extra touch of graceful look. Color: Tan. Pattern: Geometric,Plaid.

Inspiration for this collection was found in the rich Indian culture of handwoven jute rugs and is the result of a smart combination of a very natural looking jute yarn and a 100% recycled wool-look polyester. Ethnical inspired and geometric linear looks, intricate chevrons and abstract designs will enrich every home and create a cozy living space. Foldable and bespoke finishing with the shepherd's stitch to give each rug an extra touch of graceful look. Color: Tan. Pattern: Geometric,Plaid.

Maraini: Acts of Photography, Acts of Love is an extraordinary selection of the photography of Fosco Maraini in a beautifully printed, multi-language, oversized hardcover edition. Maraini's career as an ethnologist, photographer, filmmaker, mountaineer, writer and professor spans a period of more than sixty years. Perhaps best known for his work on Tibet and Japan, Maraini has extensively photographed the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges of central Asia, Southeast Asia and the south of his native Italy. His work on Tibet and on the Ainu people of Northern Japan is perhaps the most important historical documentation of two lost cultures. The book includes several images from an unpublished body of photographs of southern Italy made shortly after World War II. Maraini includes four essays in three languages (English, Italian and Japanese) and over 100 black and white and color images. Rather than grouping the images by location or time, they have been intermixed. This not only reflects Maraini's eye, but also his vision of the world where spiritual, human and topographical qualities exist in only one true compartment-the world itself.

Dacia Maraini is today's most prominent Italian writer. She's won, among others, both Campiello and Strega prizes, which are the most prestigious Italian literature awards. Her books have been translated into 22 languages and some of her bestsellers - such as Storia di Piera [Piera's Story], L'eta del malessere [The Age of Malaise], La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria [The Silent Duchess], Voci [Voices], and Memorie di una ladra [Memories of a Thief] - were turned into successful movies. Writing like Breathing is a unique collection comprising some of her most important works, the majority of which have never been translated into English. The series is divided into four major volumes that are meant to give a full picture of Maraini's production from 1962 to the present: I. Autobiography, novels, short stories and poems; II. Plays; III. Articles; IV. Essays, talks and interviews. Writing like Breathing shows how the finest Italian woman writer alive today has embraced and fought for a vast number of issues: women's rights, abuse of women and children, emigration, discrimination, politics, the Holocaust, among many others. Moreover, this collection of Maraini's autobiographies, novels, short stories, and poems, emphasises the author's long relationship with Japan and the United States, countries to which she has devoted several books and articles, both autobiographical and fictional. Some unpublished manuscripts enrich this unique first volume: two short stories ("A Christmas in the Snow Globe" and "Aylan") and three poems ("At Night", "Rome", "Like Sea Bass Underwater"). The other volumes contain unpublished plays ("Diotima and Socrates," "My Name is Antonino Calderone," "Celia Carli, Ornithologist", and "Lia, Who Thought Herself Antigone"), essays, talks, conversations, and interviews given by the author at American universities.

Dacia Maraini is today's most prominent Italian writer. She's won, among others, both Campiello and Strega prizes, which are the most prestigious Italian literature awards. Her books have been translated into 22 languages and some of her bestsellers - such as Storia di Piera [Piera's Story], L'eta del malessere [The Age of Malaise], La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria [The Silent Duchess], Voci [Voices], and Memorie di una ladra [Memories of a Thief] - were turned into successful movies. Writing like Breathing is a unique collection comprising some of her most important works, the majority of which have never been translated into English. The series is divided into four major volumes that are meant to give a full picture of Maraini's production from 1962 to the present: I. Autobiography, novels, short stories and poems; II. Plays; III. Articles; IV. Essays, talks and interviews. Writing like Breathing shows how the finest Italian woman writer alive today has embraced and fought for a vast number of issues: women's rights, abuse of women and children, emigration, discrimination, politics, the Holocaust, among many others. Moreover, this collection of Maraini's autobiographies, novels, short stories, and poems, emphasises the author's long relationship with Japan and the United States, countries to which she has devoted several books and articles, both autobiographical and fictional. Some unpublished manuscripts enrich this unique first volume: two short stories ("A Christmas in the Snow Globe" and "Aylan") and three poems ("At Night", "Rome", "Like Sea Bass Underwater"). The other volumes contain unpublished plays ("Diotima and Socrates," "My Name is Antonino Calderone," "Celia Carli, Ornithologist", and "Lia, Who Thought Herself Antigone"), essays, talks, conversations, and interviews given by the author at American universities.

Dall’infanzia a oggi la scrittrice si racconta. Dacia Maraini ripercorre la sua vita: il campo di prigionia in Giappone e gli otto anni trascorsi a Bagheria; la lunga storia di tenerezza e amore con Alberto Moravia; gli esordi letterari a Roma. Uno ad uno compaiono i suoi personaggi: Marianna Ucrìa, Santa Chiara di Assisi, Maria Stuarda, la cortigiana Veronica Franco, la giornalista Michela Canova. La parola si fa letteratura e la scrittrice racconta come nasce un romanzo.Le parole di Dacia Maraini sfidano i pregiudizi comuni, soprattutto quelli sulle donne. E per le donne Dacia Maraini si è sempre battuta, come racconta in questo libro allo stesso tempo dolce e appassionato.

In this book, Fosco Maraini recounts his travels to Tibet in 1939 and 1948, before it fell to China. He brings back to life a world which will never be seen again. In the tradition of Italian travellers from the days of Marco Polo, Maraini went to Tibet to learn, to understand, to give, and to receive. His encounter with the people of Tibet, from princesses to peasants, aided as he was by a good knowledge of the language, is a true meeting of minds. The text, which attests to the disciplines of the scholar allied to the sensitivity of the poet, is enriched by the narrative value of the author's photographs, including many Buddhist temple artifacts now forever lost.

Art Does (Not!) Exist is lively, inventive, and artfully wicked. In the world according to video artist Julia Maraini , life is in need of tracking control. Personas warp and twist in a perverse parody of modern life that is, nonetheless, exactly the thing itself. As the protagonist prepares a video for an important grant application, she discovers that the video has been tampered with, and a snuff film of her controversial star (a wealthy Brazilian) added. Does she turn it in? Does she receive an NEA grant? How much hipper can hip be than Art Does (Not!) Exist?Art Does (Not!) Exist is about Julia Maraini, an artist in her early twenties involved in video and other new genres, who is down on her luck: her mad scientist husband is gone but threatens to return; and her apartment on the lower east side close to Soho, burns down under suspicious circumstances. Through it all she works at completing her art projects hoping to receive an NEA grant for one of them, or at least an invitation to be included in the prestigious Whitney Biennial. One of her projects is an interview with two skeletons purported to be Nag and Nell, the parents of Hamm, a character in Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Her competitors are: a Brazilian steel magnate who writes her sexy letters and appears by two mysterious characters; a famous British feminist who is in the States to promote her first novel; and a pair of near-sighted detectives disguised in Hawiian shirts. At one point her estranged husband, his mother and step-father appear on the Geraldo Show where all hell breaks loose. This is a book about the way an artist thinks, it examines what's at stake in today's art world - and dares to ask the question, what is art anyway? A question that has been pondered ever since someone handed a loaded paintbrush to a chimp and aimed her at a canvas. Written with tongue in one cheek and tofu in the other, Art Does (Not!) Exist is both funny and nourishing.

Creating shockwaves when first published in Italy in the 1980s, this is a historical novel based on a true account of a grisly murder in turn-of-the-century Verona. In her relentless narrative based on interviews and contemporary accounts, Maraini has brought a long-submerged story of injustice and oppression to light. The fact that Isolina became pregnant by her lieutenant lover and refused to have an abortion was published in newspapers after the murder. Also known, but not reported, was the suspicion that she was probably murdered by soldiers who, protecting their comrade's reputation, tried to abort the pregnancy. The crime could easily have been solved, but evidence was destroyed by the state in efforts to defend the image of the military. Dacia Maraini is one of the best known writers in Italy. Her previous prize-winning novel, The Silent Duchess, sold 200,000 copies in Italy and was on the bestseller list for seventy weeks.

Dall’infanzia a oggi la scrittrice si racconta. Dacia Maraini ripercorre la sua vita: il campo di prigionia in Giappone e gli otto anni trascorsi a Bagheria; la lunga storia di tenerezza e amore con Alberto Moravia; gli esordi letterari a Roma. Uno ad uno compaiono i suoi personaggi: Marianna Ucrìa, Santa Chiara di Assisi, Maria Stuarda, la cortigiana Veronica Franco, la giornalista Michela Canova. La parola si fa letteratura e la scrittrice racconta come nasce un romanzo.Le parole di Dacia Maraini sfidano i pregiudizi comuni, soprattutto quelli sulle donne. E per le donne Dacia Maraini si è sempre battuta, come racconta in questo libro allo stesso tempo dolce e appassionato.

In this book, Fosco Maraini recounts his travels to Tibet in 1939 and 1948, before it fell to China. He brings back to life a world which will never be seen again. In the tradition of Italian travellers from the days of Marco Polo, Maraini went to Tibet to learn, to understand, to give, and to receive. His encounter with the people of Tibet, from princesses to peasants, aided as he was by a good knowledge of the language, is a true meeting of minds. The text, which attests to the disciplines of the scholar allied to the sensitivity of the poet, is enriched by the narrative value of the author's photographs, including many Buddhist temple artifacts now forever lost.