Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante Rodrigues begins to question the

Rodrigues begins to question the true meaning of compassion - and the limits of his own belief

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Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante Rodrigues begins to question theYoung Arturo grows up in isolated freedom on an island in the Bay of Naples, roaming the hills with his dog, sailing and reading tales of mythical heroes. This idyll is shattered when his father returns home with a new wife, Nunziata. Barely older than Arturo, one of the only women he has ever met, she awakens his fierce longing for tenderness, a longing which draws the family towards a painful reckoning in this powerful story of disillusionment and