In 1976, when the Italian author Goliarda Sapienza finished writing “The Art of Joy,” a nearly seven-hundred-page novel, now considered her best work, it was too shocking—or, possibly, too long—to ...
Sicily, early 1900s. After a tragedy that leaves her an orphan, Modesta is welcomed into a convent where she becomes the protégé of the Mother Superior. Modesta tries to get closer to Leonora, but the ...
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