《the homecoming party》是2010年Penguin出版的圖書。作者是Carmine Abate。
基本介紹
- 書名：the homecoming party
- 作者：Carmine Abate
- 出版社：Penguin
- 出版時間：2010年6月
- ISBN：9781933372839
內容簡介
Publisher's Note
It is Christmas Eve. Sitting on the steps of the village church infront of an enormous bonfire lit in celebration of the season, afather and his son exchange stories. The father speaks of life asan emigrant from Italy, in perpetual limbo between departure andreturn, between France and his home. The son tells of a life marredby his father's long absences but also of an otherwise idyllicchildhood spent in a vivid, enchanting land. Each hides an awfulsecret concerning the fate of a mysterious man whose affair withthe boy's older sister changed their lives. On this night ofnights, as the long-buried details seep through each man's story, ashared truth will finally emerge.Set in an Arb?resh? town insouthern Italy and told in alternating first-person voices, TheHomecoming is simultaneously a coming-of-age novel, a love story,and a heartfelt cry against the atrocious standards of living thatforce so many southern Italians to seek a better life elsewhere.Here is an intense and moving novel about the difficulties ofsaying goodbye by one of Italy's greatest storytellers.
Industry Reviews
"Peppered literally with phrases from the Arberesh, an ancientdialect of the Albanian language, Abate's novel forms a lovely,sentimental hymn to this vanishing world...."
