by Simonetta Agnello Hornby · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807723735
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«La monaca» is the historical novel by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (304 pages, in Italian).
In 1839, in Messina, Agata, daughter of a marshal, is forced to renounce her love for Giacomo and enter a Benedictine convent in Naples. Amid hatred, passions and vendettas, she finds solace in cultivating medicinal herbs, reading and corresponding with Captain James Garson, while torn between faith and the desire for freedom.
This 2012 edition belongs to the Universale Economica collection; the work won the PEN Club Italia Prize.
For readers of Italian historical fiction and stories of women torn between faith and freedom.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. Her novels are international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages.
