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| #790082 in Books | 2012-04-01 | File type: PDF | 84 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Book Imitates Life|By Carol Malzone|Books can amuse, entertain, educate…and, at times, they can open a door. Retired engineer and professor, Angelo Coniglio, wrote The Lady of the Wheel, a book based on his research into the genealogy of his own Sicilian family. What he discovered reveals not only the extreme hardships that led to the great influx of Sicilians and South||* "Reading The Lady of the Wheel, I was reminded of the realistic works of Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga . . . a compelling narrative about the atrocious living conditions that forced so many Sicilians to migrate to other parts of the worl
This is a story set in Racalmuto, Sicily in the late nineteenth century. As historical fiction, it deals with a heartbreaking aspect of parenting: the practice of of leaving unwanted children in a revolving door or wheel (ruota) of a church, hospital or foundling home, so that the children would be cared for or placed for adoption. In some towns, the receiver of foundlings was called 'la ruotara' or 'la ruotaia' (the lady of the wheel). Even in hard times, its...
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