9781586420413

Arturo's Island: A Novel

Elsa Morante; Isabel Quigly

ISBN 10: 1586420410 / 1-58642-041-0
ISBN 13: 9781586420413
Publisher: Steerforth Pr
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover
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ON A SMALL ISLAND in the Tyrrhenian Sea there lives a boy as innocent as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away. Black-clad women care for him, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes. Then the father returns with a new wife, Nunziata, a girl barely older than Arturo. At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels for his stepmother. In time, Arturo and Nunziata re-create the tragedy and passion that are as old as the history of men and women.


 
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