by Simonetta Agnello Hornby · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807890192
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«Caffè amaro» is the novel by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (352 pages, in Italian).
The work follows Maria, a fifteen-year-old Sicilian girl who marries Pietro, a thirty-four-year-old man, and discovers with him a life of pleasure and freedom. The narrative spans more than twenty years of a clandestine love story, amid the Fasci Siciliani, fascism, the racial laws and the Second World War.
The novel belongs to a segment of the history of Sicily and Italy. It was originally published in 2016 and this edition is number 9019 of the Universale economica Feltrinelli collection.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and family sagas set in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. Her novels are international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages.
