num_pages: 592
description: "An Italian ROOTS." —The Washington Post Book WorldAt long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
language: English
title: Unto the Sons
titlecomplete: Unto the Sons
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Autobiography, Historical, History, Italy, Biography, Memoir, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 564
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks