Accabadora - Michela Murgia Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary

Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life

This new volume of ten short stories

and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave

In an Italian monastery

Accabadora - Michela Murgia Ida Vitale constructs a dictionaryWhen Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed she finally has the love and affection she craves. But her new 'soul mother' is keeping something hidden from her, a secret life that is intimately bound up with Sardinia's ancient traditions and customs. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the