Voices By Dacia Maraini - Book

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suggests that perhaps she was never nurtured. Furthermore, her cause of death, internal hemorrhage, suggests that those feelings imbedded within her were lost rapidly and uncontrollably (19). The obscure grasp Angela has of her emotions is just one facet of her imprisonment.
Angela’s imprisonment is traced back to its roots in adolescence, when at the young age of eight her father dies leaving an “empty gap” in her life “that couldn’t ever be filled” (189). Shortly thereafter her mother remarries, and her bondage evolves. Her new family life is the main source of her isolation. It is, as though her family remained “cocooned inside its own cultural and linguistic bunker” (6). Similar to many, her family was like a “minefield” (39). The most explosive is Angela’s new father who sexually abuses her (214-215). “He loved her without respecting her . . . and treated her as if she belonged to him” (213). He ...

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When Michela interviews Angela’s mother she feels that she is cold over the phone and then friendly in person (88). Even the taxi driver who drops Michela off for the interview exclaims, “This looks like a prison!” (87) Furthermore, the mom does not even care if they find Angela’s murderer (89) suggesting an isolation from her daughter.
Ludovcica, Angela’s sister is also seen “shutting herself off” at times (156). The two sisters grow up together and face the same problems including an abusive father and mother who was “blind and deaf” (214) to their problems. Ludovica gets confused between what happens to her and what happens to ...

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