Secolo Nuovo

by Fulvia Ferrari

A story of witches, anarchists, gnostics, indigenous outlaws, bandits, heretics, sunflowers, sailors, lavender, salmon, longshoremen, bank robbers, dynamiters, country farmers, alchemists, crimps, pimps, brothels, oceans, alembics, maroon colonies, mad scientists, artists, boats, depraved capitalists, grapes, cooks, vigilantes, teamsters, horses, libraries, traitors to the nation, hobos, miners, dancing, guerrilla leaders, mountains, religious movements, crumbling empires, nihilists, wagons, armed uprisings, wine, revolutionaries, peasants, military defectors, books, and the wireless transmission of electric energy.

470 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2021

Reviews

[Kryssanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dragged on at times, but I found it rewarding to push through! It's almost as if my friend tricked me into reading a nonfiction history of labor organizing I wouldn't have read without the fiction woven in between... I looked up many of the historical incidents I'd never heard of, and we're surprised they actually happened.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

You will never read another story like this, one that examines what we call California closely, with imagination, and with amazing artwork.

This is not an easy read but one well worth the effort.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was phenomenal, never read anything like it. The description on the back had me instantly - it was all that and more. Damn, this was cool.

[Reyna Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. I agree with another comment saying it’s as if I read an anarchist labor history book with beautiful stories woven in. I’d tried reading this with friends as a book club and admittedly nobody really liked it for various reasons, except me, but I LOVED it, and had a hard time putting it down. I felt deeply connected to the landscapes she writes about. There were hints that maybe the author will write another book and continue telling us the story, please Fulvia please! Write more. I’ve loved being in this story.

[Angeles Gottheil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bravo!

[Nicky666999 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastico!