by Jürg Federspiel · Marcos y Marcos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788871680170
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«La ballata di Typhoid Mary» is the historical novel by Jürg Federspiel, published by Marcos y Marcos in paperback (210 pages, in Italian).
Mary Mallon, a cook known as Typhoid Mary, spread typhoid fever in New York without falling ill herself. The novel portrays her in forty-five brief episodes, with humour and drama, and through them shows immigrant America and its contrasts between misery and wealth.
Original title: «Die Ballade von der Typhoid Mary». Italian edition translated by R. Sarchielli, published in 1996 in the Biblioteca germanica collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in immigration, social inequality, and New York at the end of the nineteenth century.
Jürg Fortunat Federspiel was a Swiss writer, born in Kemptthal, Canton Zurich. Federspiel authored more than 20 novels and short story collections.
