CD Edition
by Adriana Trigiani
narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister
Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Book Reference: DIR2056
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2221 3
Duration: 11h (approx.) on 9 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy made a mass migration to America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home-town. The hardworking Castellucas work the land outside Roseto.
Nella, eighteen, aspires to a genteel life 'in town', far from the rigours of farm life. But Nella's dreams of making her own fortune shift when she meets and falls in love with Renato Lanzara, a wordly, handsome, devil - A may-care poet who has a way with words that makes him irresistible...