Reading Sveva

"Reading Sveva is award-winning author Daphne Marlatt's response to the life and paintings of Sveva Caetani, an Italian émigré who grew up in Vernon, British Columbia. Daughter of an Italian prince, leftist, and scholar of Islam, Sveva grew up with the multilingual and highly cultured European traditions of her parents who moved to Vernon in 1921, when Fascism was on the rise in Italy. At age eigh...