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From the Land of the Moon
Mal di pietre
Milena Agus (born 1959)
Translated by Ann Goldstein
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From the Land of the Moon
Europa Editions · United States · 2011 · Paperback · 144 pages
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On the eve of her wedding, a young woman tries to reconstruct the singular life of her grandmother, a passionate woman whose sunny temperament clashed with a backward society that thought her mad, and whose mother beat her to teach her how to behave. She married late, when she had stopped hoping, to a widowed evacuee who asked for her hand, and their married life began badly, the couple sleeping back to back without speaking. Then, at a spa where she was sent to cure her kidney stones, the 'mal di pietre', she met by chance a man maimed in the war, and fell in love with him: the great love of her life.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 119 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Family (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2006 by nottetempo
- Author's age
- 47 when first published
- ISBN
9788874520954 (original)
9781609450014 (Europa Editions, United States)
- More
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