The innocent days of war / Mario Fortunato ; translated from the Italian by Julia MacGibbon.
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"Originally published in Italian as I giorni innocenti della guerra in 2007 by Bompiani, Firenze-Milano"--Title page verso. Translated from the Italian.
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The innocent days of war / Mario Fortunato ; translated from the Italian by Julia MacGibbon.
In this gripping coming-of-age novel, a group of young people's lives collide in unexpected ways as World War II transforms Italy and England. Central Italy, on the eve of the Second World War. A group of young Italians find themselves in the midst of what will soon become a civil war. Among them is Stefano Portelli, a hopeful lawyer with a head full of utopias, in love with Eleonora. And there is his sister-in-law Nina, secretly linked to Sergio, a partisan leader. Other lives run parallel to theirs: that of Alastair Ormiston, an English Royal Air Force Pilot, who adores Virginia Woolf's books and dreams of the ideal companion. And that of Edna, his best friend who, in a London bombed by the Nazis, discovers herself and her happiness. If their paths intersect in a shocking way, shuffling the cards of history, it will be through the work of a destiny greater than them, burning them in a bonfire where everything is consumed-joy and pain together.