'With Lives of the Saints, Nino Ricci has achieved a novel of remarkable beauty and unforgettable power.Ricci belongs on the shelf reserved for writers such as Chatwin, Ondaatje and Flannery O'Connor. Download Ipl 2013 Game For Nokia 2690. Nino Ricci's first novel, Lives of the Saints, was published in fifteen countries and won a host of awards, including the Canadian government's premier literary prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and, in England, the Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Prize. It formed the first volume of a trilogy that was.

When young Vittorio Innocente's mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake in the family stable, no one sees the blue-eyed stranger leaving except for Vittorio. He struggles to keep his mother's secret but secrets in a small village are hard to keep, and while Cristina's belly gradually grows under her loose dresses, they find themselves shunned by their superstitious neighbours. A classic of Canadian literature, Lives of the Saints has earned many distinctions since it was originally published in 1990. It was a national bestseller for seventy-five weeks, received the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the F.G. Bressani Prize.