Set in the Valle del Sole, a village nestled in the folds of the Italian Apennines, Lives of the Saints tells the story of young Vittorio Innocente, and his mother, Cristina, whose affair with a blue-eyed stranger abruptly shatters the innocence of Vittorio's childhood. As he tries to piece together the truth of his mother's crime, we discover through Vittorio's eyes the underside of Valle del Sole's pastoral calm, the age-old superstitions and fears, vestiges of a pagan past, beneath the villagers' veneer of Catholicism, and the hypocrisy and malice beneath their self-rightousness.
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From the Publisher:
A national bestseller for seventy-five weeks, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Smithbooks/Books In Canada First Novel Award, and the Bressani Prize
About the Author:
In addition to the Vittorio Innocente Trilogy, which includes the novels Lives of the Saints, In A Glass House and Where She Has Gone, Nino Ricci is also the author of Testament which was published in Spring 2002 and which won the Trillium Prize. Nino Ricci lives in Toronto with his wife and son.
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- PublisherCormorant Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1896951430
- ISBN 13 9781896951430
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages248
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