num_pages: 108
description: An young unnamed woman reflects upon the life of her grandmother a bewitching and eccentric figure whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century. In 1943 as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari the young womans grandmother is thirty and already considered an old maid unmarried and still living at home with her parents. But when the bombing ceases and despite her protests her father forces her to marry the first man to propose an older widower she doesnt love. After suffering several miscarriages she is sent for treatment at a spa on the mainland where she falls in love with an injured Italian army veteran and nine months later gives birth to a son. Attributing the pregnancy to her spa treatment she returns to her husband and never reveals the affair. Decades later she returns to the mainland and travels to her former lovers hometown of Milan. Dressed in her finest coat and shoes she wanders the streets in search of the elusive veteran.
language: English
title: From the Land of the Moon
publisher: Europa Editions