Description :
In this novel, which tells the story of his childhood in a poor district of Veneto, Francis Tessa evokes with gentleness and a touch of nostalgia the small pleasures of everyday life beyond the poverty and upheavals of the time. There, work and food were scarce, and the dream of the great Italian empire promised by Mussolini collided with reality. The poetic writing, spiced up by the language of the native land, describes the strong feelings behind the exodus of many Italians in search of a better future. Les Enfants polenta reads like a story full of humanity, an ode to the salutary intermingling of peoples and to the land of childhood, perhaps the only homeland to be defended.