The End
Salvatore Scibona
The End won the National Book Award Finalist designation. On August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival in Elephant Park, Ohio, the baker Rocco LaGrassa receives a devastating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Rocco's dogged life is transformed. This unforgettable debut novel follows Rocco, an elderly abortionist, an enigmatic drapery seamstress, a teenage boy and a jeweller deep into the heart of a crime that will twist all of their lives.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9781446484296
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Grief and lossImmigrant community lifeInterconnected lives and crime
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(2008)
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