La Nuit de la Tarentelle | Christiana Moreau

EAN : 9782258204140

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Pages : 272

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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Tarantella Night

Christiana Moreau

Release date : 02/03/2023

Elisa and her grandmother Raffaella, who share a passion for music, reunite at the family estate in Puglia, where a terrible disease is destroying the olive trees. How can a woman in this land where she is oppressed by the heat and ingrained customs pursue her aspirations and her love?

In southern Italy’s isolated Salento area, at the very heel of the Italian boot, young Elisa lives with her farmer parents in the center of her grandparents’ olive grove. A deadly bacterium called xylella has killed trees throughout the whole area. Tens of thousands of olive trees over a century... In southern Italy’s isolated Salento area, at the very heel of the Italian boot, young Elisa lives with her farmer parents in the center of her grandparents’ olive grove. A deadly bacterium called xylella has killed trees throughout the whole area. Tens of thousands of olive trees over a century old had to be cut down by the distressed farmers. Some of those trees had been seeded by the Greeks themselves over 2,000 years ago. It’s a disaster that they are unable to escape. But Elisa has other worries. She wants to enrol in the classical music institute in Milan to study singing against her parents’ objections because she has a stunning soprano voice. Only her grandmother Raffaella can relate to her and provide her support. Elisa pays her one more visit at the nursing home before leaving for Milan. Raffaella gives her a lucky medallion with the effigy of Verdi and confides in her the secret she has kept from everyone for more than sixty years, at a time when life was even more difficult for post-war girls…
A wild and lonely childhood near the Salento’s southernmost point, where the Adriatic and Ionian seas converge. A union planned by her father with the village’s oldest mafia family member to combine the olive fields and boost oil production. Her passion for Angelo, a foreigner from the north who came to work in the fields for a summer and who threatened these plans for a clan alliance. Raffaella dances the pizzica, an archaic tarantella from ancient times, which is practiced for exorcising the feeling of oppression imposed by the yoke of fathers, husbands and brothers.
Will she flee with Angelo or will she be forced to submit to the shackles of an arranged marriage? Will Elisa be able to shed the burden of tradition and live out her calling as a singer? Will the men heed the olive trees’ warnings against their disregard for the environment?

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