Gnanca na busia. Il romanzo di una vita scritta su un lenzuolo

Clelia Marchi was a woman like many others who lived through the 20th Century. Born into a family of very humble origins in 1912, she died in 2006 after losing four of her eight children, living through two world wars, and enduring an entire existence of sacrifices, poverty, and struggle. When, by 1972, Clelia seemed to have earned herself a quiet life, surrounded by the affections of her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, her husband Anteo, the love of her life, died in an accident. To find a release from the pain and make it bearable, Clelia, almost illiterate, began to write. And she wrote her life, first in notebooks, and then onto a bedsheet. Her embroidered bedsheet, this story “on the thread of sincerity”, became the deeply moving and
introspective Not a Word of a Lie.