Return to the Italian quarter /
by De Rosa, Domenica.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Quercus, 2018Description: 337 pages : 1 illustration (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781786484345 (pbk.) :; 178648434X (pbk.) :.Uniform titles: Italian quarter.Subject(s): Italians -- Great Britain -- Fiction | General | General | Italy -- History -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- FictionSummary: Sophie is only a quarter Italian. But that quarter is her charismatic grandfather Cesare, and he has instilled in her a great love of her Italian heritage. So when a journalist starts to investigate Cesare's war record, Sophie is reluctant to question just how proud she should really be. She embarks upon a journey into the past which takes her from nineteenth-century Naples to London's Italian quarter and one of the Second World War's forgotten tragedies. And along the way she also learns something very important about herself.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book - Adult Paperback | Formby Library | Adult Fiction | Available | 002958537X |
Originally published: as The Italian quarter. London: Review, 2004.
Sophie is only a quarter Italian. But that quarter is her charismatic grandfather Cesare, and he has instilled in her a great love of her Italian heritage. So when a journalist starts to investigate Cesare's war record, Sophie is reluctant to question just how proud she should really be. She embarks upon a journey into the past which takes her from nineteenth-century Naples to London's Italian quarter and one of the Second World War's forgotten tragedies. And along the way she also learns something very important about herself.
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