Chiara Valerio article in The Telegraph

Here’s an extract of Chiara’s wonderful article about Scauri, the setting for her novel THE LITTLE I KNEW.

“Italy’s greatest treasures are its undiscovered villages – and I should know Set around an ancient port, our writer’s home town of Scauri presents a version of Italy that few foreign visitors have discovered

I was born in a little town by the sea, between Rome and Naples. This is the English sentence I uttered the most throughout my school years and later in my academic life when, as a young mathematician, I used to leave the Università di Napoli for summer schools and conferences abroad. Your Say News Sport Business Money Opinion Ukraine Travel Health Lifesty Gift this article free The scholars I met never knew the name of my town, Scauri. Some had heard about nearby Gaeta (because of the prison, and the Nazi who was imprisoned there, and his escape in a suitcase), but no one knew Scauri. Scauri is a hamlet in the district of Minturno, a coastal town at the very edge of the province of Lazio. As I write these lines, there is no Wikipedia page about Scauri in English.”

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