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“The Company of False Souls” (title translated by AI)
Wanda Marasco (born 1953)
English editions
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From the hill of Capodimonte, the 'poor Posillipo', Rosa looks out over Naples and speaks to the body of her dead mother, Vincenzina, to repair the damage that bound them beyond blood and marked both their lives. She relives her mother's story: a poor childhood in the dry countryside outside the city, her meeting amid the postwar rubble with Rafele, Rosa's future father, heir to a family shut away in a gloomy apartment in Via Duomo, and the money-lending practised in the teeming alleys. Around them crowd the 'false souls' of the neighbourhood, Annarella, Emilia, the utopian teacher Nunziata, Mariomaria and her beautiful sister Iolanda.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 238 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, postwar decades
- First published
- 2017 by Neri Pozza
- Author's age
- 64 when first published
- ISBN
9788854513938 (original)