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In Casa Rossa, Roman native Francesca Marciano tells a riveting tale of three generations of women whose separate acts of betrayal set the stage for later destruction. Renée, the grandmother, forsakes her artist husband and her life in rural Puglia at Casa Rossa, to live with a woman. Alba, her daughter, takes a lover and pushes her husband to suicide. Isabella and Alina, Alba's daughters, take extreme measures to keep each other out of their lives, leading to upheaval. Told through the voice of the youngest daughter, Alina, Casa Rossa weaves the selling and closure of the family estate with the family's sordid and unforgettable history. Spanning the 20th century and providing entrée into the not-so-incompatible worlds of Italian cinema and political terrorism, Marciano, author of Rules of the Wild, reveals an authenticity in the way this emotionally warped family comes to terms with its fragmented past. It's a fine, highly entertaining work, laced with lovely writing and emotionally resonant characters. --Emily RussinRead More

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  • Product Description

    A crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rossa was bought by Alina Stradaâ??s grandfather at a time when no one else wanted it. Now busy preparing it for sale, Alina endeavors to recover the memories it still harborsâ??in particular of three women whose passions indelibly shaped her familyâ??s dark past. Thereâ??s grandmother Renee, whose love of novelty won over everything else. Alinaâ??s mother, Alba, whose marriage to a screenwriter inspired both great art and unbearable sadness. Finally Isabella, Alinaâ??s sister, whose fervent politics drove her to ever-escalating betrayals. Moving from Jazz Age Paris to 1950s Rome to modern-day New York, but returning always to the uncompromising beauty of Italyâ??s south, Casa Rossa is a spellbinding story of how loves and losses, secrets and lies, resonate across the generations.

  • 0375726373
  • 9780375726378
  • Francesca Marciano
  • 1 October 2003
  • Vintage Books USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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