Antonio's Wife: A Novel
By (Author) Jacqueline Dejohn
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ReganBooks
13th July 2005
United States
General
Fiction
Historical romance
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
813.54
Paperback
448
Width 155mm, Height 227mm, Spine 29mm
590g
World-renowned Neopolitan opera diva Francesca Frascatti journeys to New York to search for her daughter, the product of a love affair between Francesca and the son of a powerful nobleman, joining forces with Dante, a handsome detective, and Mina DiGianni, an Italian seamstress with an abusive husband, in a novel set against the backdrop of turn-of
Jacqueline DeJohn was inspired to write Antonio's Wife by her father's stories about her grandmother Filomina, who came to America as a mail-order bride. This is her first novel. She lives in New York City.