Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily

by Maria Messina

Book Overview

Ten stories of impoverished Sicilian women in the early 20th century--"honed, polished, devastatingly direct . . . verismo at its unsentimental best" (Kirkus Reviews).

The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in a "lyrical and immediate" English translation by Elise Magistro (Publishers Weekly).

Messina, who died in 1944, was the foremost female...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558615539
• ISBN13: 9781558615533
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 7.3"