User:Jmbassett/A Cloud On Sand

A Cloud On Sand (1990) is a novel by Gabriella De Ferrari. It is the story of two women, mother and daughter, locked together by love and combat. The book takes place in the Italian Riviera (1920) and in a fictional Latin American country : Yayaku. The mother is tyrannical and heartless; the daughter is imaginative and vulnerable. As WW2 changes Europe the daughter escapes to Yayaku with her much older husband and creates a life just an inventive as the mother's but unlike the mother's hers is a meaningful one.

Winner

 * Barnes and Nobles "Discover Award" (1990)

Finalist

 * Entertainment Weekly "Ten Best Books of 1990"