FROM THE WATERS - Dalle acque: Versione in lingua italiana - Romanzo Contadino - Dalla rotta dell'Adige del 1882 alle grandi migrazioni verso l'America

Perhaps not everyone knows that 1882 was a harrowing year for much of the Venetian plain.
A catastrophic flood in September devastated cities and countryside alike, breaking riverbanks—including that of the Adige—and claiming countless lives. This disaster amplified the already dire poverty of the rural masses. Thousands of fields and their harvests lay submerged. Survivors, stripped to the bone, found themselves begging for work just to avoid starvation.

Amid this crisis, desperate peasants clung to the hollow promises of emigration agents—sent out by shipping companies who profited from the booming transatlantic voyages.

From the Waters follows one family’s journey through this tumultuous era, capturing the struggles of a generation in relentless pursuit of survival. They drift from one farmstead to another, chasing work that might put food on the table.

Set in the fields of Veneto—where the echoes of Italian unification whispered too softly to bring real change—the true enemies are poverty, hunger, oppressive landowners, and widespread ignorance.

Though rooted in imagination, this historically anchored novel paints a vivid portrait of resilience. It weaves together hope and hardship, hunger and toil—and explores themes of injustice, religion, illusion, resignation, superstition, simple comforts, poverty, life…and death.
A powerful, immersive read for anyone drawn to richly wrought historical fiction and the indomitable human spirit in times of calamity.

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