During WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in-laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their ‘daughter’ – a loud little dog – and worrying constantly, incessantly, about the weather. And, worst of all, they speak with a nostalgic warmth about the region’s recently overthrown fascist regime…
Translated by Ann Goldstein, the world-renowned translator of Elena Ferrante, A House in Sicily is a brilliantly funny, razor sharp examination of family life in the shadow of the darkest period of modern Italian history, and the most exciting rediscovered European classic in decades.
| Autor |
Luisa Adorno |
|---|---|
| Vydavateľ |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Jazyk | anglický |
| Väzba | Paperback / softback |
| Počet strán | 224 |
| Formát | 216 x 135 x 15 |
| Hmotnosť | 200 |
| EAN | 9781405973908 |
| Rok vydania | 2026 |
| Edícia |
Súčasná beletria |