The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph Fasano

The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph Fasano

From Joseph Fasano, the acclaimed author of>The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, comes>The Swallows of Lunetto, the powerful story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War.

Alexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy's Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Sal . When Alexandra meets a masked figure in the streets of Lunetto, she cannot imagine what she will learn about history and her place in it.

A sweeping love story and historical drama, The Swallows of Lunetto is a timely meditation on the left-right political divide, the reckonings of inherited trauma, and the potential of forgiveness to heal deeply divisive wounds.

Fasano, Joseph: - Joseph Fasano is the author of four books of poetry: THE CROSSING (2018); VINCENT (2015), a book-length poem that Rain Taxi Review hailed as a major literary achievement; INHERITANCE (2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee; and FUGUE FOR OTHER HANDS (2013), which won the Cider Press Review Book Award and was nominated for the Poets' Prize, awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. His work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, Tin House, PEN Poetry Series, American Poets, Measure, The Missouri Review, The American Literary Review, Verse Daily, The Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program, and the anthologies Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Any Occasion (Abrams, 2015) and The Aeolian Harp (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), among other publications. A winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize, he teaches at Columbia University and Manhattanville College.

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ISBN 13	9781737022251
ISBN 10	1737022257
Title	The Swallows of Lunetto
Author	Joseph Fasano
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Maudlin House
Year published	2022-11-25
Number of pages	376
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