Random Hearts, Teresa and Roll The author Teresa
Roll signing the book "Random Hearts" (Aletti publisher, 283 pages, € 18.50).
What secret lies behind the death of a young woman who lived in the early twentieth century, to the point that his own family have deliberately erased the traces? Who was Catherine?
These questions will be answered another woman, many years later, having accidentally discovered the existence of this its ancestor. And so, page after page, it appears clear and integrates the life of Catherine, the silence in which it was forced.
last of five children of a wealthy family, Catherine is loved, cuddled by her family.
Love, as any girl her age, beautiful clothes and jewels, that his beloved Aunt Sofia, grumpy woman, opportunistic, detested by the rest of the family property, has to confirm the membership of a social class higher than households of the country. Catherine, pure and naive, cheerful, is the only one to have a relationship of genuine affection with this aunt that will cause pain for his family, and removal of her sisters and brother, forced to emigrate in America.
In Sofia, she admires the determination, tenacity, and esteem that the people who poured out.
In this context, of an Italy that he sees his people south to seek their fortune elsewhere, and especially in America, the beautiful Catherine grows and meets the love: the overwhelming and exciting, which meets only once in a lifetime. But it is a love cultivated in secret, between furtive meetings and exchange of correspondence, which quickly becomes lush feeling ...
"Random Hearts", the title fits perfectly for a novel whose lives all seem related to each other in figure Catherine, his mother Anna, dell'Innamorata Lorenzo nonché quella stessa della sua discendente che ne riscopre l’esistenza- è un romanzo d’esordio sorprendente: una storia d’amore energica, ma anche la storia di un’Italia affascinante e volitiva, quella del secolo appena trascorso, di cui si è persa traccia negli anni recenti.
Una narrazione avvincente, commovente, ma a tratti divertente, una scrittura a metà strada tra i grandi romanzi sentimentali e drammatici (come, ad esempio, “Cime tempestose”) e i romanzi scritti dalla penna ironica di Jane Austen.
