by Simonetta Agnello Hornby · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807830402
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«La Monaca» is the historical novel by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (296 pages, in Italian).
In the summer of 1839, Agata, in love with Giacomo Lepre, sees her future cut short when she is forced to enter a Benedictine convent in Naples. Amid grudges, illicit passions and monastic life, she finds refuge in studying and cultivating medicinal herbs; meanwhile, James Garson, a captain who moves her, sends her books and she follows from the convent the movements aspiring to the unity of Italy.
Winner of the PEN Club Italia Prize. It belongs to contemporary Italian fiction and is set in the context of the Risorgimento, with a female protagonist forced to choose between religious vocation and the desire to live in the world.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and Italian fiction interested in female protagonists and nineteenth-century Italy.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. Her novels are international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages.
