Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.
Title
Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.
Description
A novel of Italian American life by this immigrant in 1923 who was a contributor to the newspapers Il Progresso and the Italian Mattino di Napoli and Milanese Il Corriere della Sera, according to Flamma's Italiani di America. Corrado Altavilla was born in Aversa, 1897; in U.S. from 1923; naturalized in 1931. Before he immigrated, Altavilla was an editor of the daily Il Giornale della Sera. Flamma refers to him as a well-known (in New York) comedy writer as well as short story writer.
The story focuses on the Sacchi family, a regular lower middle class Italian American family, who realize on their own that the smooth democratic machine of American government is really a façade for the corruption and lies that keep the country running.
The plot is centered around a court case where the son, John-Giovanni Sacchi, is tried for the murder of a young prostitute with whom he had a brief encounter; the entire family becomes involved, lowering them further down the class ranks, until they are forced to return to Italy.
Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in translation.
The story focuses on the Sacchi family, a regular lower middle class Italian American family, who realize on their own that the smooth democratic machine of American government is really a façade for the corruption and lies that keep the country running.
The plot is centered around a court case where the son, John-Giovanni Sacchi, is tried for the murder of a young prostitute with whom he had a brief encounter; the entire family becomes involved, lowering them further down the class ranks, until they are forced to return to Italy.
Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in translation.
Creator
Corrado Altavilla
Publisher
Edizioni Medici Domus
Date
1938
Format
19 x 14cm; 334 p.
Language
Italian
Collection
Citation
Corrado Altavilla, “Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 28, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/111.
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