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Arturo's Island (Italian: L'isola di Arturo) is a novel by Italian author Elsa Morante. Published in 1957, it won the Premio Strega. Plot synopsis. In the novel, Arturo, a small boy, grows up on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. The island is the location of a penitentiary. Arturo lives in a gloomy mansion bequeathed to his father.
Mar 11, 2019 · “Arturo’s Island” is about a semi-orphaned boy’s coming-of-age on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples in the years just before World War II. The book’s...
Arturo’s Island (L'isola di Arturo in original) was published in 1957. The story is set in the years leading up to and during World War II and follows the Arturo Gerace, as he grows up on the small and poor island of Procida in the Bay of Naples.
Feb 19, 2019 · A postwar novel about a boy, his father, and their isolated world. Arturo, a young boy, grows up on the island of Procida alone. His mysterious father comes and goes at will.
Mar 21, 2019 · The following is from Ann Goldstein's translation of Elsa Morante's novel Arturo's Island, which follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where he roams the countryside and reads in his family’s lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering existence is upended when his father brings ...
Arturo's Island : a novel. "On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, there lives a boy as innocent of sin and the great world as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away - we are never quite sure where.
Apr 11, 2023 · Arturo's island. by. Morante, Elsa, approximately 1912-1985. Publication date. 1959. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive.
