By the olive groves : a Calabrian childhood
Ietto-Gillies, Grazia2017
Book
In 1939 a girl was born in the wild Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a land haunted by history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the 'Ndrangheta - Calabria's answer to Sicily's Mafia. As the tremors of World War II shake the heart of Calabria, so the little girl's childhood unfolds. Her life is simple, revolving around school, friendship, family. At its heart is the kitchen where the dramas and joys of family life are played out and where her mother, Giulia, creates the food around which everything revolves.
Main title:
By the olive groves : a Calabrian childhood / Grazia Ietto Gillies.
Author:
Imprint:
London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Collation:
256 pages.
ISBN:
9781784535469 (hbk)178453546X (hbk)
Dewey class:
945.7091 IET945.7091
LC class:
DG975.C145
Language:
English
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BRN:
314251