Sparrow

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This is the first English translation of Verga's novel La Storia di una Capinera and is the official tie-in with the Zeffirelli film Sparrow. Set in 1854 in a Sicily devastated by a cholera epidemic. Sparrow tells of a love that can never be; the brief existence of a girl, forced to become a nun, who falls in love with a young man, but who, on returning to the convent, goes insane. Zeffirelli chose to film Sparrow as he was intrigued by the need for idealised and absolute love. "It is a challenge for me to tell of 'The Insanity of Absolute Love' with its emotional yearnings and enchantment, its exchanges of furtive glances and stolen caresses".

subjects: Literary Criticism & Collections / Italian,  General,  Italian (Language) Contemporary Fiction,  Fiction - General,  Fiction,  Convents,  Italian,  Italian Novel And Short Story,  Italy,  Literary,  Sicily (Italy),  Sisterhoods,  Women,  Fiction / Literary,  Fiction, general,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)