Swimming to Elba
By: Silvia Avallone ; translated by Antony Shugaar
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony, translator
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780143123651
Subjects: Girls; Fiction; Female friendship; Bildungsromans
Work titles: Nuoto all'Elba
Description: Enthralling their failing industrial town on the coast of Italy during a summer when they discover their budding sexuality, adolescents Anna and Francesca are separated by a test of their friendship and eventually discover that they must reconnect to escape small-town destinies.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.