The Immigrants

<h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A story of love dreams exile and tragedy told with heartbreaking beauty</span></h3><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'Although if they are asked before they die they all say they came here for a better life they do not always find a better life do they?'</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In the Victorian town of Mitrefò tobacco is grown an Italian cinema and café open and people travel back and forth from Italy. A boy fishes wanders the countryside and watches a community form with its joys scandals and shared understandings. Interspersed are the 'grotesques' - indelible and terrible events that sit alongside the better future they all seek.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Immigrants</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Moreno Giovannoni depicts a family as they build a new life in a strange land. Through love and exile industry and tragedy their unspoken dreams and fears unfold in this astonishing and moving book.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Praise for <em>The Fireflies of Autumn</em>:</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'I can't remember ever reading anything quite like it. It thrilled me and made me laugh and moved me very deeply.' -Helen Garner</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'There is immense beauty in this book and there is great sadness and there is genuine tenderness. I can't recall when I was last thrilled by a book as I am by this one.' -Christos Tsiolkas</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'I have never read a migrant tale so original so breathtaking in scope or so magical.' -Alice Pung</span></p><p></p>