The Vietri Project

Autori

• Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

Parametri

• 240 pagine
• 9 ore di lettura

• Mappe e viaggi
• Narrativa
• Narrativa contemporanea
• Prosa storica
• Turismo / Viaggi

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A search for an elusive customer leads a young bookseller to research the complicated history of her family in Rome and how it was shaped by mental illness, a communist murder trial, and devastating wartime losses. Working at a bookstore in Berkeley, Gabriele becomes intrigued by the orders of signor Vietri, a customer from Rome whose numerous purchases grow increasingly mystical and esoteric. She quits her job and, landing in Rome, decides to look up Vietri. Following a trail of obituaries and military records, a memoir of life in a village forgotten by modernity, and the court records of a communist murder trial, Gabriele meets an eclectic assortment of the city's inhabitants. Each encounter draws her unexpectedly closer to her own painful past and complicated family history-- an Italian mother diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized during her childhood, and an extended family in Rome still recovering from the losses and betrayals in their past. -- adapted from jacket

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2022

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