Casa Rossa (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"An engaging, sweeping and compulsively readable novel." --The Washington Post Book World

"An enthralling tour de force ...The gritty details of modern Italian life make Casa Rossa impossible to put down." --USA Today

"[Marciano] amps up the glamour and mystery in her sophisticated novel about Italian sisters who clash over family, politics and men. Think La Dolce Vita turned topical tale." --Glamour

"Elegant, eloquent prose . . . Casa Rossa is notable for its rueful understanding of the volatile mix of emotions that binds us to those we love." --Los Angeles Times

"[A]ffecting, beautifully told. . . [R]ich and resonant. . .Marciano is a natural-born storyteller."--The New York Times

"Beautifully told . . . rich and resonant. . . . Marciano is a natural-born storyteller." --The New York Times Book Review

"A family epic [that] revolves around three generations of extraordinary women... Fans of Marciano's first novel will once again embrace her sensual descriptions of exotic lands." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Marciano brings Southern Italy as boldly to life as she did Kenya in Rules of the Wild. . . . imperturbably weav[ing] intricate complications together into a glamorous, romantic whole." --Publishers Weekly

"Lyrical. . . . Romantic. . . . The story of a family whose secrets collide with history." --Desert News

"Marciano. . .casts a sharp eye on the society that surrounds the family of the Casa Rossa. Her Italy is full of lies. . .But the search for truth takes courage, and the lesson learned in her novel is that the violence of the anni di piombo achieved nothing." --The Economist

"Lyrical. . . . spiced with those special Italian flavors: beauty, melodrama, and-of course-murder. . . . Thank heaven for life's little pleasures." --Daily Candy NYC

"Marciano effectively intermingles family secrets, Italian history, and the loves and lives of her characters. A good read." --Library Journal

"Tells the mesmerizing story of three generations of a twentieth century Italian family . . . with . . . passion and fervor. . . . Enthralling." --Italian Tribune

"We are made to reevaluate history and to look at the human cost both of ideals and failures in ideals. . .The period [Marciano] describes may have been given a stylish apotheosis by the early Fellini, but it can survive now only in elegies which, like this one, are really indictments." --Times Literary Supplement

As Alina packs up the family belongings at their home, a magnificent farmhouse in Puglia, in preparation for its sale, she uncovers clues to her family's past, revealing the lives of three extraordinary Strada women--Grandmother Renee, who left her husband to flee to Nazi Germany; her mother Alba; and her sister Isabelle, who joined the Red Brigades in the 1970s. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.