The Homecoming Party(ISBN=) 英文原版

Publisher’s Note
It is Christmas Eve. Sitting on the steps of the village church in
front of an enormous bonfire lit in celebration of the season, a
father and his son exchange stories. The father speaks of life as
an emigrant from Italy, in perpetual limbo between departure and
return, between France and his home. The son tells of a life marred
by his father’s long absences but also of an otherwise idyllic
childhood spent in a vivid, enchanting land. Each hides an awful
secret concerning the fate of a mysterious man whose affair with
the boy’s older sister changed their lives. On this night of
nights, as the long-buried details seep through each man’s story, a
shared truth will finally emerge.Set in an Arb?resh? town in
southern Italy and told in alternating first-person voices, The
Homecoming is simultaneously a coming-of-age novel, a love story,
and a heartfelt cry against the atrocious standards of living that
force so many southern Italians to seek a better life elsewhere.
Here is an intense and moving novel about the difficulties of
saying goodbye by one of Italy’s greatest storytellers.

Industry Reviews
“Peppered literally with phrases from the Arberesh, an ancient
dialect of the Albanian language, Abate’s novel forms a lovely,
sentimental hymn to this vanishing world….”