The Letter Carrier

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇó What would happen if you finally met your soul mateΓÇöbut they were married to someone else? In a novel that has become a bestselling phenomenon in Italy,The Letter Carrier shows how a little town in southern Italy might be just like every townΓÇöwith women and menhusband and wivesfathers and sonsmothers and daughtersall trying to navigate the world while staying true to their hearts. SalentoItalyJune 1934: A coach stops in the main square of Lizzanelloa tight-knit village where everyone knows each other. A couple gets off: The manCarloa child of the Southis happy to be back home after a long time away; the womanAnnaΓÇöhis wifeΓÇöis a stranger from the North. CarloΓÇÖs brother is there to meet themand he and everyone else canΓÇÖt help but notice that Anna is as beautiful as a Greek statue. But Anna is not like the other wives. She doesnΓÇÖt gossip or attend church. She reads books no one else has ever heard ofexploring ideas that some find threatening. She even wears pantsjust like a manand thinks a woman should have rightsjust like a man. There arenΓÇÖt many options for a woman with AnnaΓÇÖs sensibilitiesso when she learns that the post office is hiringshe leaps at the opportunity. A female letter carrier? It is unthinkable! But Anna passes the postal exam and soon becomes the invisible thread connecting the town as she delivers letters between clandestine loversfamilies waiting to hear news of loves ones away at warand even helping those who canΓÇÖt read. Letters connect peopleand they convey information and emotion. But for some in Lizzanelloletters are too little and too late. The Letter Carrier taps into the universal feeling of connectionΓÇöand what happens when that connection perhaps comes at the wrong time.