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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 twentieth-century Sardinia onto a single misbegotten household.
274 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 2009
Ma come si racconta questa storia di silenzi?
Voi lo sapete, tutti lo sanno, che le storie si raccontano solo perché da qualche parte sono accadute.
Basta afferrare il tono giusto, dare alla voce quel calore interno di impasto che lievita,sereno in superficie ,turbolento nella sostanza .