The Immigrants [electronic resource]
Giovannoni, Moreno2025
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A story of love, dreams, exile and tragedy, told with heartbreaking beauty'Although if they are asked before they die, they all say they came here for a better life, they do not always find a better life, do they?'In the Victorian town of Mitrefò, tobacco is grown, an Italian cinema and café open, and people travel back and forth from Italy. A boy fishes, wanders the countryside and watches a community form, with its joys, scandals and shared understandings. Interspersed are the 'grotesques' – indelible and terrible events that sit alongside the better future they all seek.In The Immigrants, Moreno Giovannoni depicts a family as they build a new life in a strange land. Through love and exile, industry and tragedy, their unspoken dreams and fears unfold in this astonishing and moving book.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Black Inc., 2025
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781743824122
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English
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498212