The French-Lebanese writer – no stranger to complicated ethnicities or religious groups – has set this novel in a small Albanian community in the mountains of southern Italy. Often comic, sometimes dark, at times both.
The Postman of Abruzzo
£16.99
Edition:Hardback978180309152504/05/2023
Categories: 03. Summer Books 2023: Fiction, Fiction, Summer Books 2023
Tag: Fiction in Translation
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