The Shore of Sorrows

In late autumn, in the last year of the 18th century, a gypsy camp appeared in the small Italian town of Stellata on the banks of the Po River, and a beautiful gypsy woman named Violka stole the heart of the forty-year-old bachelor Giacomo Casadio. Despite the opposition from both families, the lovers got married, but one day Violka decided to cast the cards to find out what awaited them in the future. The cards predicted a terrible tragedy that awaited one of their descendants.... In her work, enveloped in a mystical aura, the renowned Italian writer and poet Daniela Raimondi intertwines the fates of her characters with events from real life. In this poignant narrative, truth and fiction, reality and magic, tears and jokes are blended, covering two centuries of Italy's history, from Garibaldi's struggle for the unification of the country to terrorism and social upheavals of the 1970s. The whimsical blend of romance and realism evokes empathy, hope, and the attempt to find and understand the meaning of human life.