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The Postman of Abruzzo

The Postman of Abruzzo

Khoury-Ghata, Vénus
Fagan, Teresa Lavender

Hardcover

Series: French List

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 1803091525
ISBN13: 9781803091525
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: Jun 19 2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A lyrical novel concerning belonging, foreignness, and ethnicity.

Following the path of her late geneticist husband, Laure arrives in the town of Malaterra in the harsh mountains of Abruzzo in Italy, where her husband was studying the close-knit Albanian inhabitants. At first an intruder, she is gradually accepted by the population, which is made up of amusing, eccentric characters. Among them: Helena, who hanged her dishonored daughter from the fig tree in her garden, and who has been waiting for thirty years with her gun for her daughter's rapist to return; the Kosovar, a distrusted bookseller languishing in his dusty shop; Mourad, the baker, who proposes marriage to Laure and every other woman who enters his bakery; and Yussuf, the postman, who makes his rounds even if there is no mail to deliver. We also meet the unfortunate assailant who returns from his exile to reclaim and restore his family home. With humor and compassion, this book brings to life the inhabitants of a small, remote town in the mountains of Abruzzo.

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