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Lives of the Saints is a novel by Nino Ricci. The author's first book, it forms the first part of a trilogy. The other two novels are In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone. Lives of the Saints was first published in 1990 and was the winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for fiction.
Overview. Lives of the Saints (1990) by Nino Ricci is the first in a trilogy of novels about an Italian immigrant to Canada, Vittorio Innocente, and his family. The author, Nino Ricci, is the son of Italian immigrants who grew up in Leamington, Ontario, home to a large community of Italian immigrants.
1. Jan. 1990 · 3.57. 1,731 ratings105 reviews. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Award for FictionSet in a small, golden village nestled in folds of the Italian Apennines, The Book of Saints is a deceptively simple novel of startling power and mythic dimension.
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Ricci's first novel Lives of the Saints was a critical and commercial success. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the 1990 Governor General's Award for Fiction and a Betty Trask Award. It forms a trilogy with Ricci's next two novels, In a Glass House (1993) and Where She Has Gone (1997).
“Lives of the Saints is a gem of a novel, and its author is blessed with the rare ability to recreate the world entire and make us believe in it.” — The Globe and Mail “This seems to me to be literature at its best, a sense of life lived, a sense of life felt, not without dreams, not without poetry, but without fakery.”
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...
Nino Ricci. Cormorant Books, 2004 - Governor General's Literary Award : Fiction, 1990 - 248 pages. "When young Vittorio Innocente's mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake during an encounter with...
