Lesser Islands Pieri Lorenza
WINNER: Capalbio International Prize・Carlo Marincovich Prize・2017 PEA AwardAn absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio--a seemingly idyllic…
Specifikacia Lesser Islands Pieri Lorenza
WINNER: Capalbio International Prize・Carlo Marincovich Prize・2017 PEA AwardAn absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio--a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways.A tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean with fewer than a thousand inhabitants. An older sister, a combative mother, a hedonistic father, a grandmother who fought in the Resistance, a wild younger brother. These are the people and the place that Teresa--the younger daughter and narrator--tries to escape from, eager to find a place in the world that she can call her own.But soon enough she'll have to reckon with the island, with the bittersweet distance separating her