The Vietri project a novel
A search for an elusive customer leads a young bookseller to research the complicated history of her family in Rome and how it was shaped by mental illness, a communist murder trial, and devastating wartime losses.
| Main Author: | DeRobertis-Theye, Nicola (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
A search for an elusive customer leads a young bookseller to research the complicated history of her family in Rome and how it was shaped by mental illness, a communist murder trial, and devastating wartime losses. Working at a bookstore in Berkeley, Gabriele becomes intrigued by the orders of signor Vietri, a customer from Rome whose numerous purchases grow increasingly mystical and esoteric. She quits her job and, landing in Rome, decides to look up Vietri. Following a trail of obituaries and military records, a memoir of life in a village forgotten by modernity, and the court records of a communist murder trial, Gabriele meets an eclectic assortment of the city's inhabitants. Each encounter draws her unexpectedly closer to her own painful past and complicated family history-- an Italian mother diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized during her childhood, and an extended family in Rome still recovering from the losses and betrayals in their past. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Physical Description: |
226 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
0063017709 9780063017702 |