Honest Souls
Published on 10. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
225 pages
978-1-84876-084-4 (ISBN)
Description
Anna Malvas is taken in by her uncle Paolo Velena and his family soon after she becomes an orphan. Anna enters their home as a child and grows into adulthood, falling in and out of love and eventually blossoming into a poised young woman. Along the way, Anna's vivid descriptive narrative accompanies us as we discover the Sardinia of the late 19th-century. Anna's story is set around cameo-like vignettes interpresed with simple details - descriptions of a wedding dress and the scented white paper it is wrapped within, the intricacies of Richelieu embroidery, the procedure for sun drying tomatoes - which enhance the fabric of the story. Throughout Honest Souls, Anna's story is inbibed with folkloric zest, making the novel a valuable snapshot of the small-town Sardinia of her day.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84876-084-4 (9781848760844)
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Persons
Jan Kozma, Professor of Italian (University of Kansas), is author of The Architecture of Imagery in Alberto Moravia's Fiction, and Grazia Deledda's Eternal Adolescents: The Pathology of Arrested Maturation, and translator of Deledda's Ashes and Marianna Sirca. In 1978, Professor Kozma was named Cavaliere, Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.