by Simonetta Agnello Hornby · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483103272
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«La tía marquesa» is the historical novel by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
In rural nineteenth-century Sicily, Costanza Safamita, daughter of landowners, is chosen as heir by her father over her brothers. The wet nurse Amalia Cuffaro reconstructs Costanza's life: the move to Palermo, a difficult marriage, the clash with the Mafia and the feeling of not fitting into either world.
«La tía marquesa» was translated into Spanish by Carlos Gumpert; its original Italian title is «La zia marchesa» and it is number 594 in the Andanzas collection.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas with female protagonists, set in nineteenth-century Sicily.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. Her novels are international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages.
