Behind Closed Doors
by Maria Messina
2007-07-01209 pages
About this book
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…
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