by Simonetta Agnello Hornby · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807881367
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«La monaca» is the historical novel by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (304 pages, in Italian).
Messina, 1839. Agata, in love with Giacomo Lepre, is taken to Naples and enters a Benedictine convent. Amid affections, grudges and hidden passions, she takes refuge in medicinal herbs and reading. Captain James Garson sends her books, attraction grows between them, and Agata is torn between her faith and her desire to live in the world.
Novel originally published in 2010; this edition from Feltrinelli's Universale economica collection is from July 2013. It won the PEN Club Italia Prize in 2011.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction, with a female protagonist and set in nineteenth-century Italy.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. Her novels are international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages.
