Once in Europa (1st vintage international ed.)

A luminous collection of interwoven stories,Once in Europa is a portrait of two worldsa small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade itat their moment of collision.

The instrument of entrapment is love: the passion of a willful shepard for a shrewd bourgeois housewife; of a vital young woman for a dashing Russian who has come to work in the local factory; of a steadfast son for his aged mother.

Lives are lost and hearts are broken, and, always, love is a transcending form of grace.

In Once in Europa, it speaks as plainly and as movingly as a remembered language, creating a work of astonishing tenderness.