The green silk shawl

Bregaglia in southern Switzerland, life is hard for the young widow Alma and her little daughter Lisabetta. In this very real and touching family saga, Marcella Maier tells the story of her family over four generations. At the start of the 19th century, in the Val Bregaglia in southern Switzerland, life is hard for the young widow Alma and her little daughter Lisabetta. When Lisabetta grows up, she does not want to live like her mother and so she moves to the Engadin, which has just been discove