Ellen Cooney, LAMBRUSCO
June 23rd, 2008
When the Allies bombed Italy in 1943, they made important inroads on the power of Nazi Germany — but they also destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of ordinary Italians. Ellen Cooney’s new novel LAMBRUSCO is a picaresque, half-comic, half-tragic journey through the war-torn Italian landscape. Her protagonist, an aria-singing cafe owner named Lucia, goes looking in search of her son, a partisan with the Italian Resistance who has disappeared.
We talk to Cooney about Italy, the Resistance, and the courage of ordinary people in times of war.
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August 15th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Message for Ellen Cooney: Marvelous book, Lambrusco! I’ve reveled in it for 2 days. Where have I been, missing your work. Richly layered — loved it, loved it!
Gretchen Houser
Edmonds, WA