The Nun

by Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Book Overview

Winner of the Italian PEN Prize: a tale of illicit love and a girl forced into a convent in the early nineteenth century.

1839, Messina, Italy: Agata is the daughter of an aristocrat, albeit an impoverished one, and she has fallen in love with wealthy Giacomo Lepre. Their families, however, view their romance as unacceptable and tawdry--and when Agata's father dies, her mother decides to ferry her daughter far away, to Naples, where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609450620
• ISBN13: 9781609450625
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher