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Synopsis
The Flying Island is an account of an Italian woman's solitary stay on the Azores. The islanders are poised between their open generosity and simplicity, their traditions bordering on the magic and the supernatural; and the brute realism of the new American culture imported with returning workers who increasingly view the Azores not as home but as holiday destination.
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From the Publisher
Romana Petri gives us an unsentimental account of a way of living, a view of the natural and social world under threat. Her anxious tracing of a fast-encroaching and all-consuming alien culture leads to a work of lyrical fantasy combined with acute social analysis. Translated by Sharon Wood, from the originally entitled La donna delle Azzorre
About the Author
ROMANA PETRI was born in 1955 in Rome. She graduated in Languages and Literature. Rizzoli published her first collection of short stories, The Blue Prawn, in 1990, whose title story was recently produced on Canadian radio. A writer for the newspaper L'Unita, her three published novels are highly regarded in Italy, Germany, Portugal and France. An Umbrian War, published as Alle Case Venie, was first published in 1997, and has won several literary awards, including the 1998 Rapallo-Carige Prize, the Palmi Prize and was a finalist for the Strega prize
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- PublisherToby Pr
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1902881648
- ISBN 13 9781902881645
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages120
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