About The Last Italian: A saga in Three Parts by Anthony Delstretto:
The Last Italian: A Saga in Three Parts begins in 1882 Italy and spans six decades of personal, cultural, and political tumult. In their determined rise from obscurity, three generations of the Como and Vacci families defy landholders’ greed, grim epidemics, foreign enemies, ethnic violence, and the brutality of Mussolini’s fascist state. As the characters balance love, loyalty, and ambition against the harsh demands of survival, inscrutable fortuna stands ready to roughly intervene. This edition contains the entire trilogy.
I. God’s Teeth (1882-1886) Love, jealousy, murder, vendetta — all in the time of cholera. Then the brigands strike!
II. Fate’s Restless Feet (1911-1913) They were told Tripoli would be a glorious colonial conquest. Instead, the horror in a cactus labyrinth that awaits leads to a final reckoning — five thousand miles away.
III. Death to the Wolf (1942-1945) When the Germans withdraw and Italian lines shatter near Stalingrad, survival in a howling wasteland — and revenge — become the only goals. At home, the embattled family, divided like Italia itself, faces its moment of truth.
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Author Bio:
The grandson of Italian immigrants, Anthony Delstretto was raised in a blue-collar Detroit neighborhood in the 1950s. His subsequent teaching and administrative career spanned forty-two years. The author wrote “The Last Italian: A Saga in Three Parts” over a period of twenty-eight months, publishing the current edition in 2020. Delstretto holds dual Italian and U.S.citizenship and lives in the western U.S.