Accabadora
By: Michela Murgia ; translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella
Contributors: Mazzarella, Silvester
Publisher: MacLehose
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780857050458
Subjects: Euthanasia; Adoptees; Families; Fiction
Work titles: Accabadora
Description: When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, and in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her and flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love and acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid, of a duty and destiny that must one day be hers.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.