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Soul of the border : a novel / Matteo Righetto ; translated by Howard Curtis.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501188121
- ISBN: 1501188127
- Physical Description: 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Previously published in the UK in 2018; original Italian edition published in 2017. Translation of: l'Anima della frontiera. |
| Summary, etc.: | "The de Boer family are tobacco growers, working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard, and the father, Augusto, occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him, and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips, and Jole, driven to provide for her family, inherits her father's smuggling route. Accompanied only by her horse, Sansom, she must retrace the dangerous journey through the spectacular landscape, hoping for a good trade in exchange for her tobacco, but also to discover the truth behind her father's disappearance. Written in spare, crystalline prose and cinematic in scope, Soul of the Border is an epic story of revenge and salvation, a ferocious tale of violence and corruption, and a journey into the wild."--Publisher's description. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Italian. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Smugglers > Fiction. Heiresses > Fiction. Revenge > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Soul of the Border : A Novel
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Soul of the Border : A Novel
In this exhilarating coming-of-age tale set in the late 19th century, a daring young woman braves the wilds of the mountainous Austrian-Italian border--and the dangerous men who conspired with her missing father to smuggle tobacco--in order to save her family. Jole de Boer is just fifteen years old the first time she accompanies her father--a tobacco grower named Augusto--as he smuggles his product across the Italian border into Austria. She knows the dangers of the treacherous high mountain passes--border guards, brigands, wild animals, ferocious weather--but she is proud that her father has asked her to join him. After all, without the extra money Augusto's smuggling brings in, their family would starve. But when Augusto mysteriously disappears during one of his trips, Jole must retrace the route he took to both find a buyer for her family's tobacco--and the truth behind her father's disappearance. An epic tale of revenge, corruption, and salvation, The Soul of the Border is an unforgettable journey into the wild.
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