The Nun(1st Edition) by SimonettaAgnelloHornby, Anthony Shugaar Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Europa Editions Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-60945-062-5, ISBN: 1-60945-062-0 "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 she h ..."
The Almond Picker(Reprint) A Novel by SimonettaAgnelloHornby, Alastair Mcewen Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42506-7, ISBN: 0-312-42506-6 "The child of poor farmers, La Mennulara became a maid for a well-to-do local family when she was only a girl; by dint of hard work and intelligence, she became the indispensable administrator of the family's affairs. Still, she was a mere servant, and now (as this story begins) she is dead.As the details unfold about this mysterious woman, The Almond Picker assumes the witty suspense of a thriller, the emotional power of a love story, a ..."
The Marchesa(1st Edition) A Novel by SimonettaAgnelloHornby, Alastair Mcewen Paperback, 354 Pages, Published 2008 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42747-4, ISBN: 0-312-42747-6 "A richly evocative tale of a woman's struggle for life and love A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby's internationallyacclaimed The Almond Picker, this entertaining new novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power. The Marchesa is an eyeopening historical drama about a remarkable woman and her extraordinary family, and the complex, often abusive relations that ..."
The Marchesa(1st Edition) A Novel by SimonettaAgnelloHornby, Alastair Mcewen Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18245-8, ISBN: 0-374-18245-0 "A richly evocative tale of a woman's struggle for life and love A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby’s internationallyacclaimed The Almond Picker, this entertaining new novel is an intricate family saga interwoven with violent passions, cruelty, deceit, and the abuse of power. The Marchesa is an eyeopening historical drama about a remarkable woman and her extraordinary family, and the complex, often abusive relations that ..."
The Almond Picker(1st Edition) A Novel by SimonettaAgnelloHornby, Alastair Mcewen Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18234-2, ISBN: 0-374-18234-5 "A surprising mystery--and love story--set in rural SicilyLike many memorable works of fiction, The Almond Picker hinges on a question, in this case: who is Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, known as Mennulara, the almond picker? Born into a desperately poor Sicilian farming family, Mennulara went into service when she was only a girl, as a maid for a well-to-do local family; by dint of hard work and intelligence, she became the indispensable adm ..."
The Almond Picker by SimonettaAgnelloHornby, Alastair Hornby Mcewen Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-101909-3, ISBN: 0-14-101909-3 "Title: The Almond Picker Binding: Paperback Author: SimonettaAgnelloHornby Publisher: PicadorUSA"
The Nun by SimonettaAgnelloHornby 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-60945-910-9, ISBN: 1-60945-910-5 "... the breeze carried with it the perfume of the invisible gardens in the cloister
and ruffled the surface of the turquoise sea in the distance, where foaming waves
surged. Agata noticed across the street, and just a little to the left, beneath
another ..."
The Marchesa A Novel by SimonettaAgnelloHornby 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-0440-1, ISBN: 1-4668-0440-8 "A Novel Simonetta Agnello Hornby. enough. He wanted to humiliate me in public
for faults that are not mine, as if I had something to do with this girl, who is ugly in
the bargain. People are talking, putting two and two together. He wants to destroy
me, he wants me a slave in chains, he knows I must put up with everything, I can't
do without them. It would serve him right if I put a curse, the evil eye, on him and
his daughter, but ..."
The Marchesa by SimonettaAgnelloHornby Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Text ISBN-13: 978-1-921145-73-5, ISBN: 1-921145-73-0 "These themes are flawlessly woven into the fabric of Costanza's triumphant life, so that The Marchesa becomes not only an unforgettable human tale but a masterly fresco of a vanished world."
Flora Miniature Edition(Updated) An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower (Mini Titles) by Brent Elliott, Sir Simon Hornby, SimonettaAgnelloHornby Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2003 by Gardners Books ISBN-13: 978-1-902686-33-2, ISBN: 1-902686-33-0 "'Flora' introduces the story of this evolution, from wild species in far-flung places to domestic varieties, drawing on the archive of the Royal Horticultural Society."
The Marchesa By SimonettaAgnelloHornby by SimonettaAgnelloHornby Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-102370-0, ISBN: 0-14-102370-8 "The Marchesa's brave, unusual story offers an unprecedented woman's perspective on the incestuous hypocrisy of Sicilian aristocracy during a dramatic time in history."
The almond picker / SimonettaAgnelloHornby ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen by SimonettaAgnelloHornby Paperback, Published 2005 by Text Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-921145-17-9, ISBN: 1-921145-17-X "In the Sicilian village of Roccacolomba, La Mennulara ('the woman who gathers almonds') lies dead. For more than 40 years she had been at the heart of the Alfallipe family, one of the richest families in Roccacolomba first as a humble maidservant and then rising to manager of the family estates. Now, at her death, gossip among the villagers is reaching fever pitch as they begin to wonder just how La Mennulara managed to amass such a lar ..."
La Mennulara (Italian Edition) by SimonettaAgnelloHornby Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Feltrinelli ISBN-13: 978-88-07-88193-0, ISBN: 88-07-88193-4 "Rare Book"
La Zia Marchesa - Nuova Edizione 2013 (Italian Edition) by SimonettaAgnelloHornby Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Feltrinelli Traveller ISBN-13: 978-88-07-88144-2, ISBN: 88-07-88144-6 "Seconda metà dell'Ottocento. La Montagnazza. Agrigento. Amalia vive con la nipote Pinuzza in una delle molte grotte scavate nella pietra. Le occupazioni quotidiane vanno di pari passo con i racconti di quando Amalia era la balia di Costanza in casa Safamita, una grande famiglia della ricca aristocrazia terriera. Il crollo del regno borbonico, la vendita dei beni ecclesiastici, il potere progressivamente assunto dalla mafia nelle campagn ..."
