Authors:
Photographs by Chiou Taur Wu, Text by Martine Bacigalupo
Publishers:
ARTIERE
Date of Publication:
2024-07-01
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Not yet available
"I'm showing how big the sky is" is a tribute by Martina Bacigalupo to her
Former nanny Chiou Taur Wu, a Taiwanese woman who has lived for more than three
decades in Italy. Battered by life – from a childhood spent in the fields
from the south of the country to working in a factory in Taipei, still a teenager, to the
gambling debts from her Italian husband that forced her to work day and night –
Chiou Taur does not let herself be discouraged. Returning to Taiwan at almost 70 years old, she
decides to take revenge on life and treat herself to everything she doesn't have
could do before: she resumes her studies, enrolls in dance classes
living room, and begins to travel. Through hundreds of photos received from Chiou
During ten years of correspondence, the Italian photographer offers us
the story of extraordinary resilience. Told in the first person, with
Chiou's images and words, this book, published by L'Artiere Éditions, is
a song of freedom, full of humor and poetry.
