VOYAGE TO AN UNKNOWN LAND

About the Book

The story of an Italian couple in a village in Lombardy in the 1880’s; their stormy courtship and marriage; their many children and the financial depression that causes the father, Antonio, to leave his wife, Angela, and five children behind when he emigrates to Guatemala. Angela struggles to survive. Meanwhile, Antonio labors to bring his family together despite dictators, revolutions, and politics in Guatemala. Family reunites and seven more children born. Family stories as remembered by the grown-up daughters: music, suitors, marriages, alcoholism, earthquakes, Angela’s stoicism, silkworms, funny and sad times. A tragi-comic chronicle of one family’s not-so-average lifetime.

About the Author

Consuelo de Aerenlund was born in Guatemala in 1923, grew up in the U.S.A. and has lived in Mexico City since 1946. She has worked as a Spanish/English translator, a marketing research project director and in 1953, together with her husband Max, founded Konditori, a well-known restaurant chain. Now widowed, she has four daughters and seven grandchildren. She started to write seriously at the age of 65 and has had several poems published in literary journals in the U.S.A.