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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Angela Paolantonio |
ISBN: | 1537410911 9781537410913 |
OCLC Number: | 1052119784 |
Description: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
Series Title: | BiblioLabs, LLC.; Books. |
Responsibility: | Angela Paolantonio. |
Abstract:
The Ghosts of Italy is Angela Paolantonio's memoir of how she first discovers and then returns to live in the remote mountain village in Southern Italy where her grandparents were born. She sets out late one November, just after having celebrated Thanksgiving alone on a rooftop in Rome, the spirit of her ancestors guiding her in. "I really didn't know I was searching for anything till I got here," she says. "Then I realized what I was missing and what it meant." Angela Paolantonio's archetypal journey to the village of the ghosts of her ancestors is a unique yet universal woman's story. She ventures across the threshold of a lost world, reclaims it, and falls deeply in love along the way-- with the town and its residents, the landscape, and the Handsome Man from Macchiursi. She follows the clues to rediscover her spirit and the spirit of her grandmother, and namesake, whose memory had been lost to her, locked inside her father's heart.
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Publishers Weekly Book Life Prize 2020
“The mingling of a journey to find ancestral roots with a rustic love story, plenty of local color, and excellent descriptions of Italian...
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“The mingling of a journey to find ancestral roots with a rustic love story, plenty of local color, and excellent descriptions of Italian cuisine, result in an intriguing and passionate memoir."
— Publishers Weekly, Book Life Prize 2020
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