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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.
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Imprint:
London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Collation:
256 pages
ISBN:
9781784535469 (hbk)
Dewey class:
945.7091092
LC class:
DG975.C145
Language:
English
BRN:
1910849
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