The party of return

Marco grows up torn between the wonder of a land full of scents and flavours – Calabria arbëreshë – and the yearning and anger at the distance of his emigrant father. Until a passing of the baton between generations that has the epic step of a great initiatory fable. La festa del ritorno is an unforgettable love story, a coming-of-age tale and a precious testimony to our emigration. A magical novel, illuminated by Abate’s crackling language, suspended between the realism of lives plumbed in their daily toil and the enchantment born of a child’s gaze.