Paradiso: A Novel

1879. Veneto, Italy. An unscrupulous French nobleman, the Marquis de Rays, is promoting a scheme to colonise New Guinea. He has numerous French investors but needs a workforce. He guarantees land, housing and the promise of untold wealth in his utopian colony of La Nouvelle France.Along with forty other Italian families Lorenzo Perin, his wife Caterina and their two children join the expedition. T...