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Sparrow: The Story of a Songbird (La Storia Di Una Capinera, English Edition) by Giovanni Verga is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sparrow: The Story of a Songbird (La Storia Di Una Capinera, English Edition) about?

This is the first English translation of Verga's novel La Storia di una Capinera and is the official tie-in with the Zeffirelli film Sparrow. Set in 1854 in a Sicily devastated by a cholera epidemic. Sparrow tells of a love that can never be; the brief existence of a girl, forced to become a nun, who falls in love with a young man, but who, on returning to the convent, goes insane. Zeffirelli chose to film Sparrow as he was intrigued by the need for idealised and absolute love. "It is a challenge for me to tell of 'The Insanity of Absolute Love' with its emotional yearnings and enchantment, its exchanges of furtive glances and stolen caresses".

Author

Giovanni Verga

Publisher

Dedalus; Hippocrene; Dedalus Ltd; Dedalus Books Limited

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780781802956

Subjects

Romance, Fantasy, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.72 / 5 (661 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14