Songs Of The Suitcase

'Songs of the Suitcase' - six stories and a novella connected by images of suitcases, music, birth, death and love. Travelling through an intense cityscape, these stories tell of family rivalries, generational conflicts, cultural dislocations and accommodations. From the accordion kings who ruled the inner-city Italian dance halls in the 1970s, to the bittersweet ironies of family and the arranged marriages of suburbia, Anna Maria Dell'oso's new collection of writings is passionate, dramatic, earthy and strongly observed.