Torregreca Life Death Miracles Author:Ann Cornelisen Ann Cornelisen lived south of Naples in the medieval town she calls Torregreca, shared its honeycombed life, came to know its people in all their vitality and strangeness. Now, in this vivid, humane, and unvarnished account, she tells of her experiences in setting up a nursery there, and of the town and its people. Torregreca, as a book (and a... more »s a town) exists on several contrasting levels: past and present; the individual life as it alters from day to day, and the unalterable elements of Torregrecan existence - superstition, poverty and prejudice on the one hand, and on the other a passionate, transcendent determination to live. The sense of life permeates this book. It is an uncommon achievement - a valuable social document and a work of art.« less