Voyage to an Unknown Land: The Saga of an Italian Family from Lombardy to Guatemala

by Consuelo de Aerenlund

Overview

The story of an Italian couple in a village in Lombardy in the 1880’s; their stormy courtship and marriage; their many children and the financial depression that causes the father, Antonio, to leave his wife, Angela, and five children behind when he emigrates to Guatemala. Angela struggles to survive. Meanwhile, Antonio labors to bring his family together despite dictators, revolutions, and politics in Guatemala. Family reunites and seven more children born. Family stories as remembered by the grown-up daughters: music, suitors, marriages, alcoholism, earthquakes, Angela’s stoicism, silkworms, funny and sad times. A tragi-comic chronicle of one family’s not-so-average lifetime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462810048
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	08/25/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	983 KB