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Synopsis
The Mill on the Po trilogy has been called the “epic of the common man,” intended—in its author’s own words—“to poeticize a century and to celebrate the tenacious humility of the little people of Italy, who have kept faith…and refused to be crushed by the almost overwhelming burden of their history.” The trilogy’s central theme is the birth of Italy as a nation; its central figures are Lazzaro Scacerni and his family, their mill on the river Po, and the river itself—stately, savage, source of both life and death.Misery, set in the years 1848 to 1872, follows Giuseppe, the miller’s son, as he makes a remarkably successful career of smuggling, leaving the management of Saint Michael’s Mill to his wife, Cecilia. Yet for all Giuseppe’s schemes and successes, a torrent of tribulation threatens to sweep away all that the Scacerni family has built. Expanding the Scacerni story into its next generation, Misery deftly continues Bacchelli’s capacious and passionate masterpiece, The Mill on the Po.
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