Arturo's island
Original title: L'isola di Arturo
Translated by Michel Arnaud earliest edition we have, 1957 Gallimard, 1978 paperback
Einaudi Tascabili — book 292
"On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, there lives a boy as innocent of sin and the great world as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away - we are never quite sure where. Black-clad women care for him, run the house, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes.Then the father returns from the mainland with a new wife, Nunziata, who is in fact a girl barely older than Arturo himself. At first hatr...
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