Flight From Torregreca: Strangers And Pilgrims
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the poverty-stricken villages of southern Italy's Basilicata region, something quietly devastating was happening — a mass exodus of an entire way of life. Flight from Torregreca: Strangers and Pilgrims is Ann Cornelisen's deeply human follow-up to her acclaimed debut, chronicling the fate of the people she came to know and love in the desolate hilltop town of Torregreca, as they are scattered by economic desperation to the factories of the industrial north and the streets of foreign cities. With the authority of a witness who lived among them for years, Cornelisen documents the heartbreak of displacement, the disintegration of community, and the quiet resilience of individuals caught between a dying world and an indifferent new one. Cornelisen writes with the precision of a journalist and the empathy of a novelist, presenting the human cost of Italy's postwar economic miracle with unflinching clarity. Her prose is spare yet devastating, transforming the stories of shepherds, women, and children into a powerful indictment of social neglect and political failure. A landmark of twentieth-century narrative non-fiction, this work stands alongside the great traditions of engaged, immersive writing — and leaves the reader asking an uncomfortable question: when a whole culture is uprooted, what, if anything, survives?
Author: Ann Cornelisen
Format: Hardback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the poverty-stricken villages of southern Italy's Basilicata region, something quietly devastating was happening — a mass exodus of an entire way of life. Flight from Torregreca: Strangers and Pilgrims is Ann Cornelisen's deeply human follow-up to her acclaimed debut, chronicling the fate of the people she came to know and love in the desolate hilltop town of Torregreca, as they are scattered by economic desperation to the factories of the industrial north and the streets of foreign cities. With the authority of a witness who lived among them for years, Cornelisen documents the heartbreak of displacement, the disintegration of community, and the quiet resilience of individuals caught between a dying world and an indifferent new one. Cornelisen writes with the precision of a journalist and the empathy of a novelist, presenting the human cost of Italy's postwar economic miracle with unflinching clarity. Her prose is spare yet devastating, transforming the stories of shepherds, women, and children into a powerful indictment of social neglect and political failure. A landmark of twentieth-century narrative non-fiction, this work stands alongside the great traditions of engaged, immersive writing — and leaves the reader asking an uncomfortable question: when a whole culture is uprooted, what, if anything, survives?