Bibliograph

Eva sleeps, Francesca Melandri ; translated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor

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Label

Eva sleeps, Francesca Melandri ; translated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Eva sleeps

Oclc number

918995042

Responsibility statement

Francesca Melandri ; translated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor

Summary

Story of Eva, a forty-year-old from Alto Adige. One night Eva receives a phone call from Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy. Vito, a carabiniere who served for years in Alto Adige, is dying and would like to see Eva one last time. Vito served in Alto Adige during the seventies, years of darkness and tension. However, that did not stop the love between Vito, and Gerda, Eva's mother, a young cook from Alto Adige and the sister of a terrorist. Vito is the only man that Eva ever considered a father. Whatever happened to the love between Vito and Gerda?

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