The Time in Between
$35.00
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2019
Summary
Vincenzo Chironi sets foot for the first time on the island of Sardinia - ‘a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean’ - in 1943, a year of famine and malaria. All he has with him is an old document as proof of his name and date of birth, but to find out who he really is he has had to undertake an even more stressful journey than the one he has just faced in the steamer from mainland Italy to Sardinia. At Nuoro he will find his grandfather, a master blacksmith, who will act as a substitute fat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857056733 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857056735 |
| Author: | Marcello Fois, Silvester Mazzarella |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 198mm x 18mm |
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It is a long time since I last came across a writer with such a deep, poetic sense of nature and the ability to convey it.
Immediate and intense … Fois is fearless in showing emotion … his descriptions [are] so vivid the sun-baked dust catches your throat… . Quietness and fury are powerfully combined. - Glasgow Herald.
About The Author
Marcello Fois
Marcello Fois was born in Sardinia in 1960 and is one of a gifted group of writers called ‘Group 13’, who explore the cultural roots of their various regions. He writes for the theatre, television and cinema, and is the author several novels, including The Advocate, Memory of the Abyss, Bloodlines and The Time in Between.
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