by Simonetta Agnello Hornby · Albert Bonniers Förlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9789100100872
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«Mandelplockerskan» is the novel by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, published by Albert Bonniers Förlag in hardcover (274 pages, in Swedish).
After the death of Maria Rosalia Inzerillo, a domestic servant nicknamed the Mennulara, the Sicilian village where she worked fills with rumors. No one knows how she amassed her money or why an influential man attends her funeral. The search for her will uncovers the mark she left on the Alfallipe family and a web of secrets and greed.
Translation by Viveca Melander; the original novel, «La Mennulara», was published in 2002 and won the Forte Village and Alassio Centolibri awards.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction, and for book clubs interested in novels set in rural Italy.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. Her novels are international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages.
