Bloodlines
Fois, Marcello, 1960-2015
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When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realises he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when, a few years later, Michele himself looks down from a church rooftop and sees the beautiful Mercede, the quiet orphan realises he has found the woman he will marry. So begins Marcello Fois' magisterial domestic epic of the lives and loves of the Chironi family, as they struggle through war and fascism. Deftly endowing familial horrors with mythical resonance, Fois creates a Dantesque triptych that inscribes the history of 20th-century Sardinia onto a single misbegotten household.
Main title:
Bloodlines / Marcello Fois ; translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella.
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2015.
Collation:
283 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: 2014.
ISBN:
9781848667945 (pbk)
Dewey class:
853.92
Language:
EnglishItalian
Added title:
BRN:
1832887