An interview enriched by an exceptional photographic archive and the representation of some episodes of his life and novels.
From childhood to working at a very young age in the spinning mill, from teaching to writing.
Through social marginalization, war and the Resistance, school and finally the wait for death.
A brilliant and highly emotional narrative.
The title The tail is the longest to skin It alludes to a peasant proverb referring to the skinning of a rabbit, where the last part, the tail, is the most difficult to remove.
Just like old age, which, according to the writer, is the slowest passage of life, an exhausting purgatory made fortunately bearable by memories.
An ancient land of Langa, all new, narrated by a woman where women are the main protagonists.
I was fascinated by the narrative richness of Maria's novels, in which events are treated with such spontaneous and concrete emotion that it becomes almost logical: the characters (especially the female ones) are passionate, twisted, seductive, strongly tied to the rules dictated by rural survival. These ancestral motivations make her a global writer; the human drama is so genuine that it will be easy for any audience to love the vicissitudes of the different characters.
– Barbara Allemand
