# A House in Sicily

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- Authors: [Luisa Adorno](https://www.bookquiver.com/luisa-adorno)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation

## Description

During WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in-laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their ‘daughter’ – a loud little dog – and worrying constantly, incessantly, about the weather. And, worst of all, they speak with a nostalgic warmth about the region’s recently overthrown fascist regime… Translated by Ann Goldstein, the world-renowned translator of Elena Ferrante, A House in Sicily is a brilliantly funny, razor sharp examination of family life in the shadow of the darkest period of modern Italian history, and the most exciting rediscovered European classic in decades.

## Editions

### A House in Sicily

- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: Ann Goldstein
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0597-391-5
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [A House in Sicily](https://www.bookquiver.com/luisa-adorno/pl/a-house-in-sicily) (pl_PL)