ASIN: B07WSHS2QN
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 285
PULLING GOD'S TEETH (1882-1886)Twenty-four-year-old Carlo Como goes out fishing one dawn on the wide river near his northern Italian village of Castrubello. The Pirino has provided a living for the Como family for generations, but this morning Carlo hauls in a very different catch: three large white rocks known as "God's Teeth." The valuable stones, coveted by local ceramic-makers, will allow him to marry his love, Tonia Vacci, a worker in the town's dismal silk mill.But the fisherman's good fortune is resented by estate manager Baldassare Gaetano, greedy both for Tonia and the profit from the stones. Carlo's discovery unleashes a chain of love and jealousy, courage and betrayal, violence and perseverance that will define the Como and Vacci families for decades to come.Tonia's brother, Ettore, is determined to advance through life on his own merits and bids farewell to Castrubello. With ...
