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The House of Scorta

Le Soleil des Scorta

Laurent Gaudé (born 1972)

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes

English editions

In English

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Freed after a long prison term, the small-time thief Luciano Mascalzone returns to Montepuccio, a sun-baked Apulian village on the coast, to take the woman he has always wanted, Filomena Biscotti. An error that night founds the Scorta line, poor but stubborn, who hand down a tobacconist's paid for with 'New York money' and a fierce will to live, from 1870 to today.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
246 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Italy, 1870–2000s
First published
2004 by Actes Sud
Author's age
32 when first published
ISBN

9782742751419 (original)

9781596921597 (MacAdam/Cage, United States)

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