In Search of Paradise is the story of an Italian family which, having lived for generations in an isolated mountain town in Abruzzi, Italy, is forced by World War II and economic hardship to pull up roots and re-establish in Canada. Presented as a series of first-person narratives, it illustrates the difficulties of immigration in the 1950s and the subsequent ambivalence - and sometimes humour - of life in a new country.
In Search of Paradise is the story of an Italian family which, having lived for generations in an isolated mountain town in Abruzzi, Italy, is forced ...