First edition
Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and minor wear on rear cover of dust jacket. Hardcover.
Publishing Info: Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1997
ISBN: 9780771074547
Vittorio (Victor) Innocente re-meets his half-sister Rita in Toronto, shortly after his father's death. Uneasy with their new proximity in each other's lives, Victor and Rita are at first restrained, distant. But gradually the weight of what is unspoken between them comes closer to the surface, setting in motion a course of events that will take Victor back to Valle del Sole, the place of his birth. It is there in this small Apennine village, where the story had its beginning twenty years earlier, that he confronts his past, its deep connectedness and strangeness, its secrets and its revelations...
