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Author: Francesca Giannone ,
Elettra Pauletto
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Random House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.627kg
ISBN: 9780593800898
ISBN 10: 0593800893
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
“Francesca Giannone is a magnificent storyteller, a master of chiaroscuro, the light and dark, delivering the delicious joys of life along with all that falls into shadow. This novel is rich and personal. When a bus stops in Lizzanello by the sea, Carlo, who has scores to settle, introduces family and friends to Anna, his modern and efficient wife and their young son. Their lives and those of the people of the village will never be the same. There is ambition, forbidden love and great longing. There is history as the story unspools against a changing Italy, but no village, no country, no universe will evolve as much as Anna, who insists on living a life in full, on her own terms, without settling for less.”—Adriana Trigiani, author of The View from Lake Como “Francesca Giannone brings the sun-soaked vineyards of southern Italy to life in this transportive and poignant novel. The Letter Carrier, set in the difficult decades before and after WWII, is a lush diorama of a village in flux. At the beating heart of it all is Anna, the rule-breaking, big-hearted letter carrier, a woman ahead of her time and drawn movingly from the author's own great-grandmother's story. An arresting read by an important rising author.”—Juliet Grames, internationally bestselling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia International Praise for The Letter Carrier “A great historical and coming-of-age novel, interwoven with maturity and wisdom, that speaks to each of us in a way that allows a fragment of life to contain and give back an entire universe.”—Corriere della Sera “The Letter Carrier conceals a strong soul, that of marginal, saved stories.”—Nadia Terranova, author of Farewell, Ghosts and Zia Nina “With an intense and engaging style, [Francesca Giannone] describes the psychology of the characters . . . and the novel becomes a small historical fresco.”—La Lettura
Author Information
Francesca Giannone has a degree in communication science and studied at the CSC in Rome, the oldest European film school. She has published various short stories in literary magazines, both in print and online. Giannone currently lives in Milan, but her heart is still in her native Lizzanello, a seaside town in the Salento region. She hopes to live there again one day.
