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Melania G. Mazzucco · 2003 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

Two children from a village near Minturno cross the Atlantic in 1903 and land at Ellis Island, to a New York of tenements and labor gangs. Built on the author's own family history, it won the Strega and sits with the Italian emigrant novel.

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