One main character of this novel regularly makes it a point to admire a fisherman's slutty daughter, while minor characters include the prickly pear gardener Filippo and the besotted donkey cart driver Alfio, who leaves town after his beloved is betrothed elsewhere.
One main character of this novel regularly makes it a point to admire a fisherman's slutty daughter, while minor characters include the prickly pear gardener Filippo and the besotted donkey cart driver Alfio, who leaves town after his beloved is betrothed elsewhere. The coast guard official Don Michele admires Lia, who is rumored to be a prostitute, but is eventually killed by her brother when he's caught with some smugglers. The husband of La Longa disappears along with his ship, the Provvidenza, on his way to Riposto, where he was supposed to sell some rotten beans he had bought on credit from Uncle Crucifix Dumbbell. The disappearance, along with the conscription of ‘Ntoni and Luca, put the novel's central characters in debt to the usurer, leading them to give up the titular domicile. Taking place in the Sicilian city of Trezza, this is, for 10 points, what depressing novel by Giovanni Verga?
One main character of this novel regularly makes it a point to admire a fisherman's slutty daughter, while minor characters include the prickly pear gardener Filippo and the besotted donkey cart driver Alfio, who leaves town after his beloved is betrothed elsewhere.
I{ Malavoglia} or (begrudgingly) The {House by the Medlar Tree}