Postcolonial life from a female perspective

In Addis, this cosmopolitan city full of Greeks and Armenians, exiles and refugees, traders and leftovers, full of marble and travertine, four-lane avenues and sodium vapor lamps, as big as Paris and green as Washington, the second half of the 1950s had dawned under eucalyptus trees and the morning rain , the reverberations of the Italian economic miracle and thus began for Giada, albeit belatedly, la Bella Vita, the beautiful life.” And that is the short Italian woman, the main character in Giulia Caminito’s novel The big A also to treat her, because until then she had had to endure above all deprivation and lovelessness.