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Hardcover Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily Book

ISBN: 1558615539

ISBN13: 9781558615533

Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily

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Ten stories of impoverished Sicilian women in the early 20th century--"honed, polished, devastatingly direct . . . verismo at its unsentimental best" (Kirkus Reviews).

The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in a "lyrical and immediate" English translation by Elise Magistro (Publishers Weekly).

Messina, who died in 1944, was the foremost female...

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