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Soul of the border : a novel / Matteo Righetto ; translated by Howard Curtis.
Van Pelt Library PQ4918.I43 A5513 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Righetto, Matteo, 1972- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Anima della frontiera. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Tobacco farmers.
- Heiresses.
- Italy.
- Missing persons--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- Smugglers--Fiction.
- Smugglers.
- Heiresses--Fiction.
- Revenge--Fiction.
- Revenge.
- Tobacco farmers--Italy--Fiction.
- Veneto (Italy)--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Veneto (Italy).
- Ötztal Alps (Austria and Italy)--Fiction.
- Ötztal Alps (Austria and Italy).
- Alps, Italian (Italy)--Fiction.
- Alps, Italian (Italy).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Atria Books, 2019.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Summary:
- "The de Boer family are tobacco growers, working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard, and the father, Augusto, occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him, and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips, and Jole, driven to provide for her family, inherits her father's smuggling route. Accompanied only by her horse, Sansom, she must retrace the dangerous journey through the spectacular landscape, hoping for a good trade in exchange for her tobacco, but also to discover the truth behind her father's disappearance. Written in spare, crystalline prose and cinematic in scope, Soul of the Border is an epic story of revenge and salvation, a ferocious tale of violence and corruption, and a journey into the wild" --Publisher's description.
- Notes:
- Previously published in the UK in 2018; original Italian edition published in 2017.
- ISBN:
- 9781501188121
- 1501188127
- OCLC:
- 1056743524
- Publisher Number:
- 99983186442
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