Australia andata e ritorno. Sogni e delusioni di un emigrante italiano

In the post-war period, a suffering Italy pushed its children abroad, to distant countries: a generation of Italian emigrants, ready to sacrifice for a better future. Until the early 1970s, more than 200,000 Italians emigrated to Australia, the ‘brand new’ continent, distant and unknown but full of hope. Long ship journeys, ‘long-distance’ marriages, hard work in the Australian outback were just some of the stages our compatriots travelled to try to reach the coveted prosperity. Luciana Pezza’s autobiographically inspired work tells a story of emigrants from the Marche region, between the courage of departure and the nostalgia of return: the narrating voices are those of the author herself, when she was a child, and of her father Sante, who will have to take sad stock of so many tribulations. A glimpse into a past that many, even indirectly, have experienced, but which few remember. A book that gives voice, between poetic and humorous moments, to a generation of forgotten Italians.