
- 320 pages
- English
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About this book
The author of the “unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival” (Jillian Cantor, USA TODAY bestselling author) The Light After the War returns with a sweeping and evocative story of love and purpose in WWII Italy.
Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father’s American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan’s library.
Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight for control of the city. Marina, an art expert, begins helping Bernard catalog his library as he makes the difficult trek to neutral Switzerland, helping to hide precious cultural artifacts from the Germans. Adding to the tension, their young neighbor Carlos, a partisan, seeks out Marina for both her art expertise and her charm. Marina, swept up in the romance, dreams of a life together after the war.
But when Carlos disappears, all of Marina’s assumptions about her life in Florence are thrown into doubt, and she’ll have to travel halfway around the world to unravel what really happened during the war.
Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father’s American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan’s library.
Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight for control of the city. Marina, an art expert, begins helping Bernard catalog his library as he makes the difficult trek to neutral Switzerland, helping to hide precious cultural artifacts from the Germans. Adding to the tension, their young neighbor Carlos, a partisan, seeks out Marina for both her art expertise and her charm. Marina, swept up in the romance, dreams of a life together after the war.
But when Carlos disappears, all of Marina’s assumptions about her life in Florence are thrown into doubt, and she’ll have to travel halfway around the world to unravel what really happened during the war.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Chapter One: Rome, November 1943
- Chapter Two: Florence, November 1943
- Chapter Three: Florence, November 1943
- Chapter Four: Florence, November 1943
- Chapter Five: Florence, December 1943
- Chapter Six: Florence, December 1943
- Chapter Seven: Florence, December 1943
- Chapter Eight: Florence, December 1943
- Chapter Nine: Florence, December 1943
- Chapter Ten: Florence, December 1943
- Chapter Eleven: Florence, January 1944
- Chapter Twelve: Florence, February 1944
- Chapter Thirteen: Florence, February 1944
- Chapter Fourteen: Florence, February 1944
- Chapter Fifteen: Florence, February 1944
- Chapter Sixteen: Florence, February 1944
- Chapter Seventeen: Florence, March 1944
- Chapter Eighteen: Florence, March 1944
- Chapter Nineteen: Florence, March 1944
- Chapter Twenty: Florence, August 1944
- Chapter Twenty-One: Florence, August 1944
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Florence, July 1945: Eleven Months Later
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Buenos Aires, October 1945
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Buenos Aires, November 1945
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Buenos Aires, November 1945
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Buenos Aires, November 1945
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Buenos Aires, November 1945
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Buenos Aires, February 1946
- Acknowledgments
- Reading Group Guide
- About the Author
- Copyright