The Letter Carrier: A Novel

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What would happen if you finally met your soul matebut they were married to someone else

In a novel that has become a bestselling phenomenon in Italy, The Letter Carriershows how a little town in southern Italy might be just like every townwith women and men, husband and wives, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, all trying to navigate the world while staying true to their hearts.

Salento, Italy, June 1934: A coach stops in the main square of Lizzanello, a tight-knit village where everyone knows each other. A couple gets off: The man, Carlo, a child of the South, is happy to be back home after a long time away; the woman, Annahis wifeis a stranger from the North. Carlos brother is there to meet them, and he and everyone else cant help but notice that Anna is as beautiful as a Greek statue.

But Anna is not like the other wives. She doesnt gossip or attend church. She reads books no one else has ever heard of, exploring ideas that some find threatening. She even wears pants, just like a man, and thinks a woman should have rights, just like a man.

There arent many options for a woman with Annas sensibilities, so when she learns that the post office is hiring, she leaps at the opportunity. A female letter carrier It is unthinkable! But Anna passes the postal exam and soon becomes the invisible thread connecting the town as she delivers letters between clandestine lovers, families waiting to hear news of loves ones away at war, and even helping those who cant read.

Letters connect people, and they convey information and emotion. But for some in Lizzanello, letters are too little and too late.

The Letter Carrier taps into the universal feeling of connectionand what happens when that connection perhaps comes at the wrong time.