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Informationen zum Autor Matteo Righetto (1972) lives and works in Padua! at the border of the wilderness of north-eastern Italy. Many of his works take place in beautiful mountain landscapes that he knows deeply! having visited them since childhood backpacking with his father. Among his best-known novels are the celebrated La pelle dell'orso (The Bear Skin)! recently made into a movie! and Apri gli occhi (Open Your Eyes)! winner of the Premio Cortina 2016. L'Anima della frontiera has become a literary success! and was sold in several countries before its publication in Italy. The author is now working on the second title in the trilogy. Klappentext The de Boer family are tobacco growers, working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard, and the father, Augusto, occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him, and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips, and Jole, driven to provide for her family, inherits her father's smuggling route. Accompanied only by her horse, Sansom, she must retrace the dangerous journey through the spectacular landscape, hoping for a good trade in exchange for her tobacco, but also to discover the truth behind her father's disappearance. Written in a spare crystalline prose and filmic in scope, Soul of the Border is an epic story of revenge and salvation, a ferocious tale of violence and corruption, and a journey into the wild. Zusammenfassung The de Boer family are tobacco growers! working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard! and the father! Augusto! occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him! and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips! and Jole! driven to provide for her family! inherits her father's smuggling route. Accompanied only by her horse! Sansom! she must retrace the dangerous journey through the spectacular landscape! hoping for a good trade in exchange for her tobacco! but also to discover the truth behind her father's disappearance. ...
