Abandonment

A recovered gem from the Italian Postcolonial literary canon.

At the outbreak of WWII, in the Italian colony of Eritrea, Sellass and her two children are deserted by Carlo. Now, rejected by both the local and Italian communities, she needs to find a way to provide the bare essentials for her children, while taking her anger and frustration out on her daughter Marianna. As time passes by, Marianna will eventually wonder about her origins and start looking for her father.