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Stunning new translation of this widely praised classic of European literature. Afterword by Ernest Hemmingway.
Synopsis
Driven by a sense of total disconnection, the narrator embarks on a journey from northern Italy to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. Through the conversations of the islanders and a reunion with his mother, he gradually begins to feel reconnected. But to what kind of world?