by Milena Agus · France loisirs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782867464331
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«Mal de pierres» is the novel by Milena Agus, published by France loisirs in paperback (123 pages, in French).
The protagonist, a young Sardinian woman who dreams of ideal love, enters a marriage of convenience during World War II. Years later, at a thermal cure on the mainland to relieve her kidney stones, she meets a man who changes her life. The narrative, through her granddaughter, reveals an unexpected truth about family and desire.
Translation from Italian by Dominique Vittoz. Work originally published as «Mal di pietre» in 2006.
For readers of contemporary fiction and historical fiction with an Italian backdrop.
Milena Agus is an Italian author from Sardinia. She is one of the leading novelists in the so-called Sardinian Literary Spring which began in the 1980s and which includes other international names such as Michela Murgia.
