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Buch (Hardcover): Belletristik
The Sicilian Experience of Mr. Benny
The Five-Generation Saga of a Sicilian American Family
Verlag:
WestBow Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36317245
EAN: 9781466929449
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Zustellung: Mo, 19.10.2026
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CHF 36.75
Beschreibung
Salvatore is only eight years old when he's sent to the Sicilian sulfur mines to work off his family's debt with the Mafia in 1888. Though the work is brutal, as he grows older, there is one bright spot-the beautiful Marianna, who also toils at the Miniera Di Zolfo. When they are teenagers, they fall in love and wed. For a time, they gain respite from the hard work and have two children, Samuel and Benedetto. But after three years, Salvatore must return to the mines; his family never sees him again. Marianna does her best to raise the boys without Salvatore, but a peasant's life in early twentieth-century Sicily is not easy. The Sicilian Experience of Mr. Benny shares the story of the early years of author J. B. Zito's grandfather, Ben. It provides historic insight into the rough existence the peasants faced, the trials with which common citizens dealt, and the desire of many to immigrate to America for a better life. The first of three volumes, The Sicilian Experience of Mr. Benny narrates the story of one family's early history that originated in Sicily, Italy.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jb Zito
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 120