The Betrothed

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”— The Wall Street Journal “An exemplary historical novel” ( The New Yorker ) from the father of modern Italian literature, The Betrothed receives its first new English-language translation in fifty years, hailed as “a landmark literary occasion” by Jhumpa Lahiri. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker Th