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Lesser Islands - by Lorenza Pieri (Paperback)

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  • WINNER: Capalbio International Prize・Carlo Marincovich Prize・2017 PEA AwardAn absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio--a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways.A tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean with fewer than a thousand inhabitants.
  • Author(s): Lorenza Pieri
  • 176 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Coming of Age

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"An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio--a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways."--



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WINNER: Capalbio International PrizeCarlo Marincovich Prize2017 PEA Award


An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio--a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways.


A tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean with fewer than a thousand inhabitants. An older sister, a combative mother, a hedonistic father, a grandmother who fought in the Resistance, a wild younger brother. These are the people and the place that Teresa--the younger daughter and narrator--tries to escape from, eager to find a place in the world that she can call her own.


But soon enough she'll have to reckon with the island, with the bittersweet distance separating her from her beloved yet domineering sister, and with the long shadow of the darkest moments in Italian history. Guided by nostalgia for the long, bright summer that was her childhood, Teresa will have to confront her condition, perceived or real, as the "lesser" one--accepting herself and rediscovering what she thought she had to escape from.


Between a coming-of-age novel, a family saga, and a parable on the last forty years of Italian history, Lorenza Pieri's novel is an intense and luminous book, in which language has the magnetic force of the stark, beautiful landscape that has inspired it.


"A luminous voice, of the likes of Elsa Morante and Elena Ferrante."--Vanity Fair




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Praise for Lesser Islands


"Lorenza Pieri's book will remind readers of Elsa Morante's Arturo's Island and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. But this is also different story, as poetic as it is exciting."--Huffington Post (Italy)


"Flawless... One of the most beautiful novels of the year."--la Repubblica


"An elegant novel filled with nostalgia for the beauty and remoteness of the Mediterranean."--Il Futuro


Praise for The Garden of Monsters


"[It] succeeds as both a family saga and a tender Bildungsroman--a breadth of scope enabled by Pieri's masterful storytelling."--Financial Times


"A perfectly narrated family saga, in which the loves and conflicts of each individual are composed to form a complex, vivid mosaic of the human heart and its revolutions."--Corriere della Sera


"This book confirms Lorenza Pieri as one of the great narrators of adolescence."--La Repubblica



Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Coming of Age
Publisher: Europa Editions
Format: Paperback
Author: Lorenza Pieri
Language: English
Street Date: February 21, 2023
TCIN: 86892476
UPC: 9781609458256
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-1136
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.9 inches length x 5.2 inches width x 8.2 inches height
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