The Postwoman
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The Postwoman
9.99 €
Francesca Giannone's novel is set in the author's hometown of Lizzanello, in Salento (Apulia, Italy), where Anna, a northerner, arrives in June 1934 with her husband, Carlo, a southerner who is overjoyed to return, and their young son. For the locals, Anna will forever remain a "foreigner," an awkward, headstrong woman with a sharp tongue and unwilling to adhere to the conservative traditions of the South, those centuries-old unwritten laws that constrain southern women. But for Antonio, Carlo's older brother, his wife, beautiful as an antique statue, will be love at first sight. A year later, in 1935, Anna accomplishes something truly revolutionary: she enters a postal competition, wins, and becomes Lizzanello's first postwoman. This news makes women turn up their noses at her and provokes ridicule from men. "This won't last," someone quips. Instead, for over twenty years, Anna would become an invisible thread uniting the country's inhabitants. First on foot, then by bicycle, she would deliver letters from soldiers at the front, postcards from emigrants, and missives from secret lovers. Unwittingly—and, most of all, against any public will—postwoman Anna would change much in Lizzanello.
Anna's story is the story of a woman who wanted to live her life without convention. It is also the story of the Greco family and the town of Lizzanello from the 1930s to the 1950s. And the story of two brothers destined to love the same woman.
Anna's story is the story of a woman who wanted to live her life without convention. It is also the story of the Greco family and the town of Lizzanello from the 1930s to the 1950s. And the story of two brothers destined to love the same woman.
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- All books in the series Belles Lettres