The seamstress of Sardinia / Bianca Pitzorno ; translated from the Italian by Brigid Maher.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922330536Uniform titles: Sogno della macchina da cucire. English. Subject(s): Women dressmakers -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Young women -- Italy -- Sardinia -- Fiction | Social classes -- Fiction | Coming of age -- Fiction | Sardinia (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans. DDC classification: 853.92 Summary: Born into poverty, the seamstress spends her days sewing in the houses of wealthy families. Her work is simple and honest; taught by her nonna, she skilfully prepares nightgowns, undergarments and children’s clothes, leaving the finer work of dressmaking to the ateliers in Paris. Her story weaves in and out of the lives of the people she works for, whose secrets and scandals she is privy to. Some are kind and generous, others blinded by their desire to climb the social ladder. She dreams of freeing herself from the hardscrabble life she has inherited but can’t help being pulled back in by the love of the people around her. Set at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Seamstress of Sardinia follows the girl as she grows into a woman, strives to educate herself and falls in love, always fighting for her independence in a world dominated by men and old social conventions.
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First published in Italy as Il sogno della macchina da cucire, 2018.
Translated from the Italian.
Born into poverty, the seamstress spends her days sewing in the houses of wealthy families. Her work is simple and honest; taught by her nonna, she skilfully prepares nightgowns, undergarments and children’s clothes, leaving the finer work of dressmaking to the ateliers in Paris. Her story weaves in and out of the lives of the people she works for, whose secrets and scandals she is privy to. Some are kind and generous, others blinded by their desire to climb the social ladder. She dreams of freeing herself from the hardscrabble life she has inherited but can’t help being pulled back in by the love of the people around her. Set at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Seamstress of Sardinia follows the girl as she grows into a woman, strives to educate herself and falls in love, always fighting for her independence in a world dominated by men and old social conventions.
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