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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Good Left Undonedi Adriana Trigiani
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I listened to the audio version of this book. I'm not sure but I might have rated higher if I'd read it myself. I found many of the voices of the characters annoying. As for the story, I was only interested in Dominica and Silvio's stories and some of the history e.g. the Italian immigrants in Scotland, the sinking of the prison ship, the power of the awful priests, etc. I'm not familiar with Adriana Trigiani's more recent books although I did enjoy her older ones years ago. This is much like those, a good story based on family and faith with strong women characters. Instead of being about an Italian American family as those earlier books were, this story takes place in Italy and spans the 1920s into the 1950s. The story centers around the mother of the current family matriarch. Near death, Matelda wants to tell her mother's story and will reveal facts about her mother that are unknown to Maltelda's children. Like her daughter, Domenica was a strong woman. She became a nurse and trained and worked in France and Scotland. The WWII years were pivotal to her life and Trigiani's inclusion of the fate of Italian citizens in Italy and Britian was enlightening. There has been much discussion on LT about the use of dual timelines in novels. So here is a warning, jumping around the timeline was heavily done here. I don't think the dual timeline worked for this book. The modern timeline added very little to the overall story and the WWII timeline was way more interesting. (It doesn't help that the jacket/back cover copy was misleading, so I kept waiting for this book to deliver on a promise it wasn't intended to meet.) The author makes a lot of writing choices throughout that I found baffling. I think this would actually make a good TV show, but as a book it didn't always work for me. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of storytelling.???People, "Book of the Week" "Trigiani conveys the beauty of Italy, the hardships of war, the taste of family recipes, and the enduring love of family."??Library Journal (starred) ??The beauty of any book by Adriana Trigiani is her ability to interweave life and fiction. . . . Don??t miss your chance to take this unforgettable journey with the Cabrelli women!? ??Lisa Wingate, Book of the Month From ??a master of visual and palpable detail? (The Washington Post), comes a lush, immersive novel about three generations of Tuscan artisans with one remarkable secret. Epic in scope and resplendent with the glorious themes of identity and belonging, The Good Left Undone unfolds in breathtaking turns. Matelda, the Cabrelli family??s matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother??s great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . . In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved home becomes unsafe when Italy teeters on the brink of World War II. Her journey takes her from the rocky shores of Marseille to the mystical beauty of Scotland to the dangers of wartime Liverpool??where Italian Scots are imprisoned without cause??as Domenica experiences love, loss, and grief while she longs for home. A hundred years later, her daughter, Matelda, and her granddaughter, Anina, face the same big questions about life and their family??s legacy, while Matelda contemplates what is worth fighting for. But Matelda is running out of time, and the two timelines intersect and weave together in unexpected and heartbreaking ways that lead the family to shockin Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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As Matelda grows older she realizes that she has never shared important stories with her family. These stories help family members in their daily struggles.
While this happens, Matelda also faces health issues.
An enjoyable book with realistic characters and a strong sense of place. I felt like part of the family! ( )