Love & Italy, What More Could You Ask For?

In classic Trigiani fashion, The Shoemaker’s Wife is set at the turn of the century, in the Italian Alps.  The main characters meet as teenagers, despite the proximity of their villages, and fleetingly see their futures filled with happiness and love together.

Ciro, the strapping young mountain boy from Vilmonre and Enza, a practical beauty are quickly forced apart, leading separate lives, due to a scandal Ciro witnessed, involving a priest and was therefore banished from his village and sent to live in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy.  Not long after a devastated Enza and her farther journey to New York in serch of a more secure future for their family.

The invisible tie of fate reunites both Ciro and Enza, but has too much time already past; Ciro will be going off to fight in World War I and Enza, unwavering forges a life without him as an impressive seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera House, which sweep her into the glamorous salons of Manhattan and into the life of the international singing sensation, Enrico Caruso.

From their first meeting to chance encounters, from the houses of Carnegie Hill, to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy, over the risky cliffs of northern Italy, to the white-capped lakes of northern Minnesota, these star-crossed souls meet and are forced to separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever.

Both richly woven and reminiscent, told in provocative detail and deepened with lovable, unforgettable characters, The Shoemaker's Wife is a depiction of the times, the places and the people who well-defined the immigrant experience, claiming their share of the American dream with determination and resolution, shaping it to fit their needs like a premium piece of Italian cloth.

This spellbinding historical story of love and family, war and loss, peril and fate is the novel Adriana Trigiani was always supposed to write, one motivated by her own family history and the love of tradition that has pushed her body of bestselling novels to international success. Like all her works, The Shoemaker's Wife expresses an era with lucidity and grandeur, with an operatic range and a rich cast of characters who will undoubtedly live on in the minds of readers long after they have finished reading the last word.

Adrianna Trigiani will be speaking and signing copies of The Shoemaker’s Wife at the Book Revue in Huntington on April 10^th at 7pm.  For further details visit the Book Revue website.

For more titles by Adriana Trigiani or just to learn more about her please visit her website by clicking on her name above.