by Nino Ricci · Cormorant Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781896951430
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«Lives of the Saints» is the novel by Nino Ricci, published by Cormorant Books in hardcover (248 pages, in English).
Set in the Valley of the Sun, a village in the Italian Apennines, it tells how Vittorio Innocente's childhood is shattered when his mother, Cristina, falls in love with a blue-eyed stranger. As Vittorio tries to piece together the truth, the superstitions and hypocrisy hidden beneath the village's pastoral calm come to the surface.
The novel, originally published in 1990, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Betty Trask Award in 1991.
Intended for readers of literary and historical fiction and for book clubs.
Nino Pio Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise.
