Scibona, Salvatore.
Summary: It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Against the background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, Rocco sees through the eyes of various characters in the crowd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008
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Summary: "A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government. A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019