Like many memorable works of fiction, this surprising mystery--and love story--set in rural Sicily hinges on a single question, in this case: who is Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, known as Mennulara, the almond picker?
A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby's internationally acclaimed "The Almond Picker," this entertaining new novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power.
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Cuando la baronesa Caterina Safamita di a luz a Constanza, al ver que era nia y no varn, y adems pelirroja, no quiso ni tocarla. Constanza, dcil y reservada, se cri entre las mujeres del servicio. No obstante, fue ella, y no sus hermanos, quien hered las riquezas y el deber de preservar el buen nombre de la familia. Al menos eso cuenta Amalia ...
Sealed Lips is the story of a great love and too many lies; the story of a sicilian family between two worlds -the ancestral values, still in force, and the new airs of modernism-, paving the way with their own strenght of instint and conviction. Agnello Hornby says her novel - an intimate portrait of the dying days of feudalism - captures a world ...
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