Accabadora

Michela Murgia

earliest edition we have, 1950 labutxaca, 2012 paperback 224 pages

Dtv -- 14047

When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, and in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her and flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love and acceptance, but he...

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Editions we hold

Athmháthair edition · 2023 · Unknown Publisher · 159 pages · 9781914482144
Accabadora edition · 2020 · Einaudi · 163 pages · 9788806221898
Accabadora paperback · 2015 · Erdem Yayinlari · 176 pages · 9786053495352
Accabadora edition · 2014 · Ulverscroft · 9781444820409
Acabadora edition · 2013 · Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A. · 192 pages · 9788498385113
Accabadora edition · 2012 · Quercus · 208 pages · 9780857050472
Accabadora edition · 2012 · À vue d'oeil · 328 pages · 9782846666992
L'acabadora paperback · 2012 · labutxaca · 224 pages · 9788499305110
Acabadora (Em Portuguese do Brasil) edition · 2012 · Alfaguara · 9788579621284
Accabadora edition · 2012 · Counterpoint · 175 pages · 9781619020504
Accabadora edition · 2012 · Counterpoint Press · 208 pages · 9781619021334
L'acabadora paperback · 2011 · Proa · 224 pages · 9788475882482

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