THE HOMECOMING PARTY
Author: Abate, Carmine
Translator: Shugaar, Antony

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Europa Editions
Pages: 192
Price ( Paperback ): $15.00
Publication Date: August 1, 2010
ISBN ( Paperback ): 978-1-933372-83-9
Category: Fiction

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An adventurous and troubled boyhood is piquantly detailed in this 2004 novel from a respected Italian author (Between Two Seas, 2008).

It begins one Christmas Eve in the Calabrian town of Hora (“where we speak...an old-fashioned form of Albanian”), as ...

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