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- 'I Stole the Rain' tells a trio of unforgettable stories from the superstitious Italian province of Campania, where fizzy drinks are delivered by cart, old women sell gold to a furtive clientele, and the tobacconist's daughter is a prize beyond imagining. In 'I am Super Legend,' a local team of beer-swilling, smoking, perennial losers is dragged toward the dubiously prestigious championship by the coach's son, who becomes cursed by his nickname, Super Legend. In 'Look at Me,' a motherless boy tries to help his father's best friend, the mute Cesare, who has fallen in love with their housekeeper Silvia. And in 'The Child Comes Home,' a young boy disappears, and after losing everything and being forced to take up her grandmother's questionably legal profession, his mother is consoled by her bickering sisters-in-law and her undying wish to hear a knock on her front door... A sublime mixture of humor and pathos, and brimming with colorful characters, Elisa Ruotolo's 'I Stole the Rain' is an assured debut from one of Italy's preeminent storytellers.
- Elisa Ruotolo (Santa Maria a Vico, 1975) has published several short stories and teaches Classics. I Stole the Rain is her first book.
Title Information
Title: I stole the rain
Person: Ruotolo, Elisa
Translator: Mccreadie, Lisa
Publisher : frisch & co Electronic Books
ISBN: 9780989126731
Category: Literature & Entertainment, Novels & Narratives
File size: 979 KB
Format: ePub
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