by Nino Ricci · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749391720
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Lives of the Saints» is the literary fiction novel by Nino Ricci, published by Minerva in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In Valle del Sole, a village in the Italian Apennines, Vittorio Innocente sees a blue-eyed stranger leave the stable just after his mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake. Cristina's belly grows and the superstitious neighbours ostracise the family; Vittorio tries to understand the secrets surrounding his mother.
First novel by Nino Ricci, winner of the Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize; it was adapted into a miniseries starring Sophia Loren.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction, interested in stories set in rural Italy and in Canadian literature.
Nino Pio Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise.
