A preface of fables sets the theme: give your heart to a canary and it becomes an eagle that plucks your eyes out. A baby girl born into a cosmopolitan family turns out to be a prodigy, and mother, grandmother and lovers give up their own lives to feed her gift, while the cycle threatens to repeat in the next generation.
A strange, powerful novel about motherhood and genius by an Anglo-Italian writer admired by Carducci. Download the free EPUB.