Stone of Heaven by Lucille Bellucci
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 2005
- Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 202pp
- ISBN-13: 9780595355495
- ISBN: 0595355498
Synopsis
Mai-yeen and Rafaella Bardini emigrate from Rome, Italy, and plunge into life in America, the land of opportunity. The first friends they make are possibly crooked. The men Rafaella meets are far more aggressive than any of the Italian men she has known. Moreover, she has left Stefano behind in Italy, an agonizing separation for both. Go out, do things, meet men, he urges. I won't make you promise to wait for me. And so she tries to lead a normal life. All she truly wants is to get on with her education and to have Stefano with her. Stefano's own story is one of struggle to join her.
Then Mai-yeen makes a shattering discovery. The thieves who stole the Bardinis' money in Shanghai, China, are right here in San Francisco. Because of that grand theft, Rafaella and her parents departed the Communist regime with only a few dollars in their pockets. When her father died soon afterward, the survival of the Bardinis in Italy has been both a nightmare and the test of 18-year-old Rafaella's strength of character. Now, in America, she wants revenge on those thieves.
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A Great Immigrant Storyby SophieS
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February 01, 2009:
Stone of Heaven is more than the average immigrant story, it is a story of life, love, coming of age, and finding your way in a new country. We get to see a young girl and her mother leave a life she has just created in one country, pick up and make a new life in a second country.
I thought it was interesting that the book took the angle that it did, usually there is a family of characters or males are the main characters. In this case there were two female characters that brought so much to the experience that I was entirely consumed with their trials and tribulations.
It is hard not to give anything away without sharing more on why I enjoyed this book so much. the plot was great, the story built up enough to keep me reading all the way until the last page. A great rainy day read and definitely something to share.
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