Soul of the border : a novel

Righetto, Matteo 1972- (author.). Curtis, Howard, (translator.).

Summary: "The de Boer family are tobacco growers, working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard, and the father, Augusto, occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him, and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips, and Jole, driven to provide for her family, inherits her father's smuggling route. Accompanied only by her horse, Sansom, she must retrace the dangerous journey through the spectacular landscape, hoping for a good trade in exchange for her tobacco, but also to discover the truth behind her father's disappearance. Written in spare, crystalline prose and cinematic in scope, Soul of the Border is an epic story of revenge and salvation, a ferocious tale of violence and corruption, and a journey into the wild" --Publisher's description.

Item details

ISBN: 9781501188121
ISBN: 1501188127
Physical Description: print
227 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, 2019.
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Previously published in the UK in 2018; original Italian edition published in 2017.
Language Note:	Translated from the Italian.

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Subject:

Fathers and daughters Fiction
Missing persons Fiction
Smugglers Fiction
Heiresses Fiction
Revenge Fiction
Tobacco farmers Italy Fiction
Veneto (Italy) History 19th century Fiction
Ötztal Alps (Austria and Italy) Fiction
Alps, Italian (Italy) Fiction
Fathers and daughters
Heiresses
Missing persons
Revenge
Smugglers

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Bildungsromans.
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Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.

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