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The marchesa

A richly evocative tale of a woman's struggle for life and love A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby's internationally acclaimed The Almond Picker, this entertaining new novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power. The Marchesa is an eyeopening historical drama about a remarkable woman and her extraordinary family, and the complex, often abusive relations that mark the lives of master and servant, brother and sister, husband and wife. Costanza Safamita, beloved daughter of Baron Domenico Safamita, is a precious but unusual child. Redhaired, gawky, and shy, she is considered an outsider by many on the family estate, but her adoring father makes her sole heir to the Safamita fortune, and then everything changes--for them and for her. Now she must conquer glittering, alien Palermo--where, uncertain of her future, she falls in love with a charming, dissolute young marchese whose sexual appetite she fears she cannot satiate. The Marchesa's brave, unusual story offers an unprecedented woman's perspective on the incestuous hypocrisy of the Sicilian aristocracy during a dramatic time in its history, as the Bourbon monarchy collapsed, the Mafia rose to power, and Palermo's decadent aristocracy began its inevitable decline. These themes are flawlessly woven into the fabric of Costanza's triumphant life, so that The Marchesa becomes not only an unforgettable human tale but a masterly fresco of a vanished world.

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  • "Marchesa"
  • "Zia marchesa"@pl

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  • "Family saga set in Sicily during the last years of the 19th-century."
  • "A richly evocative tale of a woman's struggle for life and love A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby's internationally acclaimed The Almond Picker, this entertaining new novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power. The Marchesa is an eyeopening historical drama about a remarkable woman and her extraordinary family, and the complex, often abusive relations that mark the lives of master and servant, brother and sister, husband and wife. Costanza Safamita, beloved daughter of Baron Domenico Safamita, is a precious but unusual child. Redhaired, gawky, and shy, she is considered an outsider by many on the family estate, but her adoring father makes her sole heir to the Safamita fortune, and then everything changes--for them and for her. Now she must conquer glittering, alien Palermo--where, uncertain of her future, she falls in love with a charming, dissolute young marchese whose sexual appetite she fears she cannot satiate. The Marchesa's brave, unusual story offers an unprecedented woman's perspective on the incestuous hypocrisy of the Sicilian aristocracy during a dramatic time in its history, as the Bourbon monarchy collapsed, the Mafia rose to power, and Palermo's decadent aristocracy began its inevitable decline. These themes are flawlessly woven into the fabric of Costanza's triumphant life, so that The Marchesa becomes not only an unforgettable human tale but a masterly fresco of a vanished world."@en
  • ""Life is like a braid. The first strand is that of duty, the second is that of possessions and the third is that of love. And if a person has three fine, strong strands, then the braid is very beautiful and she will live a happy life ..." Costanza is a skinny, shy young woman with flame-red hair. She is also the adored daughter of Baron Domenico Safamita. Their country estate boasts twenty-five servants and the days glide by. But when she is named the sole heir to the family's fortune, Costanza's life is turned upside down. In Palermo she meets Pietro, a charming, dissolute nobleman. For her, it's love at first sight and they soon marry. Her husband is kind, though it seems hers is the only bed he refuses to visit - and all of society knows it. The Marchesa is a portrait of one woman's struggle against the cruelty and amorality of the aristocracy. Nineteenth-century Sicily is captured at its most turbulent time, with the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the rise of the Mafia and the slow decay of Costanza's own class."@en
  • "Der Niedergang einer sizilianischen Adelsfamilie in der 2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts und die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen wie die Ablösung der Kirche als Schutzpatronin der Armen durch die Mafia ist das Thema des 2. Romans Agnello Hornbys (nach ihrem erfolgreichen Erstling "Die Mandelpflückerin", 2003)."
  • "Cuando la baronesa Caterina Safamita dio a luz a Contanza, al ver que era niña y no varón, y además pelirroja, no quiso ni tocarla. Costanza, dócil y reservada, se crió entre las mujeres del servicio. No obstante, fue ella, y no sus hermanos, quien heredó las riquezas y el deber de preservar el buen nombre de la familia. Al menos eso cuenta Amalia Cuffaro, su nodriza, quien poco a poco desgrana episodios de la intensa vida de Costanza, "la tía marquesa": su abandono de la vida de provincias por la bulliciosa Palermo, su atormentado matrimonio con el marqué Pietro Sabbiamena, y su sensación de no pertenecer a ninguno de los mundos que la rodean. El retrato de esta mujer es excepcional, inconformista y contradictoria, se recorta no sólo sobre el trasfondo de una saga familiar rebosante de pasiones, crueldad y abusos de poder, sino sobre una época crucial de la Sicilia decimonónica: el din del reinado borbónico y la llegada de los Saboya, el ascenso del poder mafioso en el campo y la decadencia de la aristocracia, símbolo de un universo ya perdido.--Descripción de la editorial."
  • "This entertaining novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power. The Marchesa is an eyeopening historical drama about a remarkable woman and her extraordinary family, and the complex, often abusive relations that mark the lives of master and servant, brother and sister, husband and wife."
  • "This historical novel is a family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power. It examines the complex, often abusive relations that mark the lives of master and servant, brother and sister, husband and wife."

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  • "Novela hogareña"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Powieść historyczna włoska"@pl
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Roman historique"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Novela histórica"

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  • "La Tía marquesa"@es
  • "La Tía marquesa"
  • "La tía marquesa"
  • "La tía marquesa"@es
  • "Die Marchesa historischer Roman"
  • "The marchesa"@en
  • "The marchesa"
  • "Die Marchesa : Roman"
  • "La Zia Marchesa"
  • "Sycylijska markiza"@pl
  • "A márkiné"@hu
  • "A márkiné"
  • "De markiezin"
  • "La zia marchesa"
  • "La zia marchesa"@it
  • "La tante marquise : roman"
  • "The Marchesa"
  • "Arvetanten : roman"
  • "Arvetanten : roman"@da
  • "La tante marquise"

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