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Mezzogiorno

Life. Death. Southern Italy

ISBN-13: 9781900486712

Contributor(s): David Kerekes

Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher Imprint: Headpress

Publication Date: 01-08-2012

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£11.99

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About the book

A unique meditation on family and the Italian diaspora, Mezzogiorno combines the genres of biography, memoir, fiction and travel to tell the story of three generations of a family from southern Italy. Set against the collapse of the Fascist Party and peasant riots, a boy's ghost reveals the tragedies, scandals and secrets of the Iantosca family to his sister. The drama unfurls amidst a landscape of abject poverty, vicious landlords, feuds, curses and the tarantella - a world lost to 21st century Italy.