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Umbertina Paperback - 1998

by Helena Barolini; Afterword by Edvige Giunta

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The "panoramic, descriptive, and solidly crafted" historical novel of immigration, womanhood, and the feminist ideals of self-reliance and self-confidence (Publishers Weekly).

This sweeping, multi-generational novel begins in southern Italy's Calabria region in the late 1800s, as Umbertina--the wife of a simple farmer--persuades her husband to emigrate to the United States to pursue its promise of hope and freedom for their three children.

Through years of struggle on New York City's Lower East Side and then in a growing upstate New York town, it is Umbertina's determination, ingenuity, and business sense that propel the family into financial success and security--leaving her daughters and granddaughters free to sort out their identities both as Italian Americans and as women.

"Through a dazzling interplay of American and Italian characters in both countries, Helen Barolini delineates the major concerns of all thinking American ethnics." This is no less true today, as this republication restores Umbertina to a reading public newly attuned to the complexities of cultural inheritance and identity (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

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  • Title Umbertina
  • Author Helena Barolini; Afterword by Edvige Giunta
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Feminist Press, New York
  • Publication date 1998-01-01
  • ISBN 9781558612051 / 155861205X
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.36 x 1.18 in (21.39 x 13.61 x 3.00 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Italian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, New York (State)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98044374
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Library Journal, 02/15/1999, Page 189

About the author

Helen Barolini is a recipient of an American Book Award for The Dream Book: an Anthology of Italian American Women Writers. The Italian edition of her novel Umbertina was the recipient of a literary prize in Italy, the Premio Acerbi, in 2008. She is also the author of twelve published books, two unpublished novels, and many short stories and essays that have appeared in literary journals, anthologies and several annual editions of Best American Essays.

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