Fortunato Mario - South A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: As a young man in the Seventies Valentino leaves home in search of a better life. With age he begins to feel an intense regret a longing for the world and the people he left behind which he might not be able to recover even after returning. Set in Magna Graecia the sun - drenched land where ancient Greeks stopped in their travels and happily settled now full of ruins South takes us back to a time when notaries and lawyers were undiscussed authorities in small towns. Meet the Notaio his lover Magda a Polish countess and a spy and delve into their love story in Naples; meet the Farmacista owner of the first chemist's shop in town his wife Lea and their children; follow the paths where these lives cross and Tamara Mara for short marries into the Notaio's family; get to know charming Uncle Giorgio an extravagant loner owner of two small Gauguins and Gioacchino the house ghost. Servants drivers peasants fully devoted and bound to their masters enliven this tale of love and loss war and peace politics and power told in an elegant affecting prose that transports us through time and space.
Title: South A Novel
Author(s): Fortunato Mario
Publisher: Other Press Llc
Barcode: 9781635422047
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 5/16/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction