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This is the first English translation of Verga's novel La Storia di una Capinera and is the official tie-in with the Zeffirelli film Sparrow. Set in 1854 in a Sicily devastated by a cholera epidemic. Sparrow tells of a love that can never be; the brief existence of a girl, forced to become a nun, who falls in love with a young man, but who, on returning to the convent, goes insane.
Zeffirelli chose to film Sparrow as he was intrigued by the need for idealised and absolute love. "It is a challenge for me to tell of 'The Insanity of Absolute Love' with its emotional yearnings and enchantment, its exchanges of furtive glances and stolen caresses".
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Literary Criticism & Collections / Italian, General, Italian (Language) Contemporary Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction, Convents, Italian, Italian Novel And Short Story, Italy, Literary, Sicily (Italy), Sisterhoods, Women, Fiction / Literary, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Showing 2 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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