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Francesca Marciano is an Italian screenwriter, novelist and actress. Her works include, The End of Manners, Casa Rossa, Rules of the Wild and The Other Language. Casa Rossa won the Rapallo Carige prize for women writers in 2003.
She is also a documentary filmmaker and divides her time between Rome and Kenya.
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Your first novel, Rules Of The Wild, was about Africa. You evoke places so
vividly–what made you want to write about Italy this time?
After writing about Kenya -- a place where I spent several years of my
adult life -- I felt the urge to go a little deeper, to plunge into some early
memories, some closer feelings. Although Casa Rossa is a work of fiction,
so much of the complex tapestry of my background as an Italian is woven into it.
There are, I think, certain images that follow us all of our lives; they are as
powerful as if they're engraved into our DNA, and are responsible for shaping
our lives.
In this novel I wanted, among other things, to conjure up these images of mine,
and try to make them come to life on the page. They come from the landscape of
Southern Italy–cacti; relentless cicada song among the olive trees; crumbling
farmhouses and their thick walls, the sweet smell of ripe figs: these are the
sounds, sights, and smells of the place I fell in love with as a child.
For me Southern Italy is a place with incredible power, and as I set out to
write Casa Rossa, I thought it would serve well as background for the
characters of a novel. I wanted the people who inhabit this novel to ...
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