Genio
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Overview
Ride the greatest mass migration in modern history with Genio, from Italy to Brazil to America.Genio is the story of a poor and unschooled Italian boy, growing up in the midst of the greatest mass migration in modern history: the immigration of four million Italians to North and South America. Brazil is bursting with energy as a million Europeans labor in her vastness. Beatings, intimidations, and exploitations create an unstable environment for the immigrants. Genio, distracted by the patrician beauty of the young Maria, swept up in the passion of the mixed-blood Trinita, finds his fortune only to hazard it all in defense of his fellow émigrés.
Synopsis
Ride the greatest mass migration in modern history with Genio, from Italy to Brazil to America.
Genio is the story of a poor and unschooled Italian boy, growing up in the midst of the greatest mass migration in modern history: the immigration of four million Italians to North and South America. Brazil is bursting with energy as a million Europeans labor in her vastness. Beatings, intimidations, and exploitations create an unstable environment for the immigrants. Genio, distracted by the patrician beauty of the young Maria, swept up in the passion of the mixed-blood Trinita, finds his fortune only to hazard it all in defense of his fellow émigrés.