| Edition |
First North American edition. |
| Description |
391 pages ; 25 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Note |
Originally published in Great Britain by Virago Press, July 2015. |
| Summary |
Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge. Several decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-contained woman working as a translator. Always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, whose absence and the havoc he wrought on Chiara's world haunt her. Then she receives a phone call from a teenager claiming to be his daughter, and Chiara knows it is time to face up to the past. |
| Local Note |
LEASE 2015-10 |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Fiction.
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Women -- Italy -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
031630039X |
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9780316300391 : $26.00 |
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