Nino Ricci schafft Erzählungen, die sich mit dem komplexen Zusammenspiel von menschlicher Natur und moralischer Ambiguität auseinandersetzen. Seine Werke untersuchen oft das Spannungsfeld zwischen niederen Instinkten und dem Streben nach dem Guten, dargeboten in einer reichen Prosa, die tiefe psychologische Einblicke gewährt. Riccis unverwechselbarer Stil fordert die Leser heraus und bleibt dennoch zugänglich, was starke emotionale Reaktionen und nachdenkliche Kontemplation hervorruft.
Die Italienerin Christina, seit Jahren allein, aber der Sitte nach dennoch ihrem Mann in den fernen USA untertan, nimmt sich das Recht auf einen Geliebten heraus und lässt sich auch dann nicht einer öffentlichen Demütigung unterwerfen, als sie ein Kind erwartet.
Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to "In a Glass House" explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one's longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after his father's death. Uneasy with their new proximity in each other's lives, they are at first restrained. But gradually what is unspoken between them comes closer to the surface, setting in motion a course of events that will take Victor back to Valle del Sole in Italy, the place of his birth. It is there, where the story had its strange beginning twenty years earlier, that he confronts his past, its secrets and its revelations. Poignant, gripping, and written in luminous, highly charged prose, "Where She Has Gone "is an unforgettable novel - for its vivid portrayal of character and place, and for its extraordinarily moving encounter with the past.
After a harrowing voyage from Italy, during which his mother died, seven-year-old Vittorio arrives in Canada with his newborn half-sister, and is reunited with his estranged father, a dark, isolated, and angry figure he hardly knows. The story that follows spans two decades of Vittorio’s life within an immigrant Italian farming community in Southwestern Ontario, through his university years, and then into Africa where he goes to teach. At the centre of Vittorio’s existence is his strained relationship with his father and with his half-sister, Rita. In a Glass House is a haunting tale about perseverance and longed-for redemption. Ricci juxtaposes the intimate, complex world of family, with “its shadowy intricate web of alliances,” against the dislocations of the immigrant experience. The result is a richly textured and memorable novel.