Accabadora
By: Michela Murgia ; translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444820409
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Accabadora
Description: "1950s Sardinia. When Tzia Bonaria adopts Maria, an unloved fourth child, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an accabadora, an angel of mercy who acts as a midwife to the dying. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, Bonaria breaks her golden rule of familial consent; and in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects Tzia Bonaria and flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, she strives to find love and acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid and of a destiny that must one day be hers."--Publisher description.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: MacLehose, 2011.