{"product_id":"the-immigrants-by-moreno-giovannoni-9781760645267","title":"The Immigrants","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story of love, dreams, exile and tragedy, told with heart-breaking beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Although if they are asked before they die, they all say they came here for a better life, they do not always find a better life, do they?'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Victorian town of Mitre, tobacco is grown, an Italian cinema and café open, and people travel back and forth from Italy. A boy fishes, wanders the countryside and watches a community form, with its joys, scandals and shared understandings. Interspersed are the 'grotesques'—indelible and terrible events that sit alongside the better future they all seek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Immigrants\u003c\/em\u003e, Moreno Giovannoni depicts a family as they build a new life in a strange land. Through love and exile, industry and tragedy, their unspoken dreams and fears unfold in this astonishing and moving book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Fireflies of Autumn\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I can't remember ever reading anything quite like it. It thrilled me, and made me laugh, and moved me very deeply.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Helen Garner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'There is immense beauty in this book, and there is great sadness and there is genuine tenderness. I can't recall when I was last thrilled by a book as I am by this one.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Christos Tsiolkas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I have never read a migrant tale so original, so breathtaking in scope, or so magical.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Alice Pung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46672077750508,"sku":"9781760645267","price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760645267.jpg?v=1752833828","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-immigrants-by-moreno-giovannoni-9781760645267","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}