Casa Rossa
Casa Rossa by Francesca Marciano is a historical fiction novel published by Vintage in 2003, featuring 356 pages in English. The story revolves around the Strada family and their magnificent farmhouse in Puglia, which is being sold. Alina, the daughter tasked with packing up the family home, navigates the complexities of her family’s past, uncovering the intertwined lives of her grandmother, mother, and sister against the backdrop of significant historical events.
Readers will find a narrative that explores themes of family secrets and the impact of history on personal relationships. Alina’s journey reveals the struggles of her grandmother, who left her grandfather for a woman, and her mother’s marriage to a melancholic screenwriter whose death remains shrouded in mystery. The relationship between Alina and her sister Isabella is marked by both love and betrayal, reflecting the broader societal tensions of Italy from the 1930s to the 1970s, including the rise of dangerous ideologies. Casa Rossa presents a poignant examination of how personal and historical narratives intertwine.
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Casa Rossa, the home of the Strada family, is a magnificent farmhouse standing amidst the olive groves of Puglia. The house is being sold and Alina, the daughter entrusted with packing up, is piecing together the fragments of her family’s past. Her grandmother, Renee, a beautiful Tunisian pied noir, muse and model to Alina’s painter grandfather, left him for a woman and fled to Germany. Her mother Alba marries a melancholic screenwriter, who dies in mysterious circumstances. And then there is her sister Isabella, once her best friend, who becomes a stranger, caught up in a bitter fight for a dangerous ideology. The sisters’ love for each other is always precarious, and in time shifts to a betrayal of which they can never speak. A haunting story of what happens when family secrets collide with history, Casa Rossa moves from the duplicity of Italy’s role in the 1930s to the dark years of Red Brigade terrorism in the seventies.
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