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My Mother Is a River

My Mother Is a River
  • Author(s): Donatella Di Pietrantonio
  • Location(s): Abruzzo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From 1940 to present day

The sensitive and powerful story of the love between a mother and her daughter, a love “gone wrong from the start”. When Esperia exhibits the symptoms of a disease that robs her of her memory and the very sense...

When We Were Strangers

When We Were Strangers
  • Author(s): Pamela Schoenewaldt
  • Location(s): Abruzzo, Cleveland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s onwards

Irma Vitale is a young woman in Abruzzo, her Mother dead, her father an alcoholic and she takes the opportunity to sail for America. This is the story of emigration to a new land and what awaits her and...

A Zany Slice of Italy

A Zany Slice of Italy
  • Author(s): Ivanka Di Felice
  • Location(s): Abruzzo, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

This light, lively book takes place in Italy, with hilarious anecdotes about the author and her husband’s trip to visit his family in Abruzzo and finally their escape to Tuscany. Her own expectations were shattered when she embarked on...

In The Shadow of The Apennines

In The Shadow of The Apennines
  • Author(s): Kimberly Sullivan
  • Location(s): Abruzzo
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present, WWI

An American divorcée. An Italian shepherdess. Separated by a century, united by common dreams The sleepy little Abruzzo mountain town of Marsicano seems about as far as Samantha can flee from her failed marriage and disastrous university career. Eager...

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