Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback AHIST with sharp insight gained from

with sharp insight gained from years of experience

Italy and Japan

Being the son of a Greek God

At home full-time with her two-year-old son

poignant and so very real

Goliarda Sapienza: The Art of Joy (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback AHIST with sharp insight gained fromGoliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity.' The manuscript lay for decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a "forgotten masterpiece"