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Title: Countesses of Castello, The
Author: AGUS MILENA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/10/2010
Imprint: SCRIBE
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
Three sisters live in three flats in an aristocratic palazzo in Cagliari’s ancient Castello quarter, where rich and poor are mixed as they used to be in the old downtown quarter. The eldest, Noemi, dreams of lost splendours, while the second, Maddalena, dreams of having a child. The third, known as Countess Butterfingers ‘because she’s clumsy, hands made of soft cheese, and because the whole of reality hurts her weak heart, also made of soft cheese’, dreams of love. Countess Butterfingers is the only one with a child, Carlino, a little livewire and a fine pianist. Around the family and its persistent illusions there are characters who are more solid but no less fleeting, because after all
ISBN: 9781921640698
Pages: 128