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.

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Main Author: DeRobertis-Theye, Nicola (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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520 |a 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. 
520 |a 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 
650 0 |a Women  |z Italy  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Booksellers and bookselling  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Family secrets  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Mental illness  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Self-realization in women  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Italian Americans  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Americans  |z Italy  |z Rome  |v Fiction. 
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