A story of love, dreams, exile and tragedy, told with heartbreaking beauty 'Although if they are asked before they die,they all say they came here for a better life,they do not always find a better life, do they?' In the Victorian town of Mitrefò, tobacco is grown, an Italian cinemaand café open, and people travel back and forth from Italy. A boyfishes, wanders the countryside and watches a community form,with its joys, scandals and shared understandings. Interspersedwith this are the 'grotesques' – indelible and terrible events that sitalongside the better future they all seek. In The Immigrants, Moreno Giovannoni depicts a family as theybuild a new life in a strange land. Through love and exile, work and tragedy, their unspoken dreams and fears unfold in this astonishing and moving book.