Volné pokračování románové ságy Jih proti severu. Autorka dále rozvíjí osudy hlavních postav Scarlett a Rhetta, tentokrát se děj odehrává v Irsku, zemi, odkud se Scarlettin otec kdysi vydal do Ameriky za svobodou a lepším životem.
"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new. From the Paperback edition.