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Dorothy Carrington Books

    Frederica Carrington was a British writer who made her home in Corsica for over half her life. She became one of the twentieth century's foremost scholars of the island's culture and history. Her prolific writings offer deep insights into Corsican life and traditions.

    Granite Island

    • Granite Island

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.2(119)Add rating

      Recounting the archaic beliefs of rural Corsica, with its witchcraft and its vendetta system, viewing Genoese architecture, or commenting on the modern "pleasure invasion", this book also evokes the scenery, the mountains and olive trees, the heady scent of the maquis and the austere beauty of the granite villages of Corsica. This book won the Heinemann Prize.

      Granite Island