Adam’s Breed
Автор:
Radclyffe HallЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-07-21Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
131
Description
Olga Boselli, a young Italian woman who immigrated to London with her parents at the turn of the century, dies during childbirth. Her son, Gian-Luca, is raised by his grandparents, but his grandmother, a hard woman with a nose for business, resents him—and God—for taking the life of her daughter.
As Gian-Luca comes of age, he struggles to find an identity and meaning in his life. His grandmother, the mother figure in his life, is cold; he grows up in an Italian ghetto, and so feels simultaneously apart from his English peers, but neither entirely fitting in with the culture of the Italian immigrants around him.
He turns to poetry to help fill that void, and then later, to work as a waiter at an elegant restaurant. But even...
