r.vivian literary agency

“It has been a while since our fiction had not raised such an authentic voice, foreign to masquerades, artificial inks, stale, biographical escape routes. [...] very watched pages and, at the same time, very vivid, the form that does not swallow up the substance, but the halo. " - Bruno Quaranta (TuttoLibri - La Stampa)

“The novel that Margherita Giacobino proposes to us is a banquet set. [...] It is a novel to approach with an empty stomach and let oneself be gorged with stories, generous morsels that will give us an overall portrait at the end but will still leave us hungry, eager to know more, to know more. Or to hear it told again, all over again, again, just like grandma's stories. " - Literary Criticism

“Margherita Giacobino's capacity for penetration, empathy, reconstruction that is not trivially psychological but human is extraordinary, with which she outlines her feelings, character, idiosyncrasies. Because here it is not a question of carrying out a nostalgia operation, but rather of tracing life in all its manifestations. [...] Like all family stories that span several generations, it can be read as a simple story of people, or instead as a compendium of Italian history of the twentieth century. [...] It is a book about which there is a lot to say, and at the same time it is an extremely simple book, with the simplicity of the necessary books. " - Consolata Lanza

"L'écrivaine fait entendre le dialecte de l'enfance dont les expressions, modestes leçons de vie, constitueront son

"Moral backbone". On traverse ainsi le XXe siècle par les marges.  [...] Le récit déborde d'une loyauté respectueuse a l'égard de ces obscures travailleuses.  [...] Margherita Giacobino qui doit son prénom à la benjamine de ses tantes maternelles, cette Margherita.  [...] to here the narrator doit le goût de l'humour, un de ses plus précieux legs. " - Livres Hebdo

“The family saga of Margherita Giacobino starts from the Canavese countryside of the late nineteenth century, a farmhouse where we all live together, young old people and children subjected to the laws of tradition; she is ferried into the modernity of city life since the two world wars, from the horizon of the fields to that of the factory; it witnesses the economic boom and then the crisis of today, with a single great leitmotif, the dialect as a visceral way of expression, as a mother tongue. " - South Tyrol

" Portrait of a family with a fat girl is a necessary novel, which has the urgency and beauty of necessity, written with a lucidity that does not close its eyes to the distortions and violence of history, to the disparity in the relationship between men and women , to the injustice of poverty, but also to the possibility of freeing oneself from all this through the courage of choices of autonomy. " - Nicoletta Buonapace