The Immigrants

Fabula Mirabilis, or A Wonderful Story

Moreno Giovannoni

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Black Inc
01 July 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

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A story of love, dreams, exile and tragedy, told with heart-breaking 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 Mitref , tobacco is grown, an Italian cinema and cafe open, and people travel back and forth from Italy. A boy fishes, wanders the countryside and watches a community form, with its joys, scandals and shared understandings. Interspersed are the 'grotesques' - indelible and terrible events that sit alongside the better future they all seek.

In The Immigrants, Moreno Giovannoni depicts a family as they build a new life in a strange land. Through love and exile, industry and tragedy, their unspoken dreams and fears unfold in this astonishing and moving book.

Praise for The Fireflies of Autumn-

'I can't remember ever reading anything quite like it. It thrilled me, and made me laugh, and moved me very deeply.' -Helen Garner

'There is immense beauty in this book, and there is great sadness and there is genuine tenderness. I can't recall when I was last thrilled by a book as I am by this one.' -Christos Tsiolkas

'I have never read a migrant tale so original, so breathtaking in scope, or so magical.' -Alice Pung

By: Moreno Giovannoni
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9781760645267
ISBN 10: 1760645265
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Moreno Giovannoni is the author of the critically acclaimed The Fireflies of Autumn and a freelance translator. His essay 'The Percheron' was selected for The Best Australian Essays in 2014. He was the inaugural winner of the Deborah Cass Prize for Writing in 2016.