By the olive groves : a Calabrian childhood
Ietto-Gillies, Grazia2017
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In 1939 a girl was born in the wild Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a land haunted by history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the 'Ndrangheta - Calabria's answer to Sicily's Mafia. As the tremors of World War II shake the heart of Calabria, so the little girl's childhood unfolds. Her life is simple, revolving around school, friendship, family. At its heart is the kitchen where the dramas and joys of family life are played out and where her mother, Giulia, creates the food around which everything revolves.
By the olive groves : a Calabrian childhood / Grazia Ietto Gillies.
Ietto-Gillies, Grazia, author
London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
256 pages
9781784535469 (hbk)
945.7091092
DG975.C145
English
1910849