Book
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.
