Name: The Empire of Dirt: A Novel
SKU: 54275157
Price: 26.39 EUR
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Author: Manfredi, Francesca ; Oklap, Ekin
ISBN: 9780393881776

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Author

Francesca Manfredi

Translated by

Ekin Oklap

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13.2x1.5 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780393881776

Synopsis "The Empire of Dirt: A Novel "

There has always been tension in "the blind house," where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while Valentina's mother scoffs at superstition; it's one of the battlegrounds on which they fight to control Valentina's upbringing.But in the summer of 1996, when Valentina is twelve, she gets her period for the first time--and the curse suddenly becomes frighteningly real. Blood leaks from the walls; the house and farm are overrun with frogs; the kitchen crawls with flies. Valentina is certain that she has brought catastrophe to her house and its inhabitants.In this propulsive coming-of-age novel, of mother-daughter relationships and painful family legacies, Valentina is forever changed by the events of one terrifying summer.

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