Arturo's Island

About “Arturo's Island”

On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a boy named Arturo lives as innocent of the world as a seabird, cared for by black-clad women after his mother's death and his father's absence. When his father returns with a new wife, Nunziata, barely older than Arturo, the boy's initial hatred for his stepmother gives way to unfamiliar feelings. This 1957 novel is by Elsa Morante.