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Not all Bastards are from Vienna
Andrea Molesini
Grove
February 2016
On Sale: February 2, 2016
Featuring: Andrea Molseini; Paolo
ISBN: 0802124348
EAN: 9780802124340
Kindle: B0163BZ1K8
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Fiction
Andrea Molesini’s exquisite debut novel—winner of the
prestigious Campiello Prize—portrays the depths of heroism
and horror within a Northern Italian village toward the end
of the Great War. While a family’s villa is requisitioned by
enemy troops, they are forced to intimately confront war’s
injustice as their involvement with its sinister
underpinnings grows more and more complex. In the autumn of 1917, Refrontolo—a small community north of
Venice—is invaded by Austrian soldiers as the Italian army
is pushed to the Piave river. The Spada family owns the
largest estate in the area, where orphaned
seventeen-year-old Paolo lives with his eccentric
grandparents, headstrong aunt, and a loyal staff. With the
battlefront nearby, the Spada home become a bastion of
resistance, both clashing and cooperating with the military
members imposing on their household. When Paolo is recruited
to help with a covert operation, his life is put in
irrevocable jeopardy. As he bears witness to violence and
hostility between enemies, he grows to understand the value
of courage, dignity, family bonds, and patriotism during
wartime.
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