Elise Valmorbida
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English
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An epic, inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War--by any means possible "Powerful and entrancing."--Sara Gruen, author of At the Water's Edge Maria Vittoria is twenty-five when her father brings home the man who will become her husband. It is 1923 in the austere Italian mountain village where her family has lived for generations,...