Shortlisted for the 2019 Premio Campiello and set in seventeenth-century Lombardy, this novel is written in the style of an…
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October 1672Box number four […] She pushes the leafless branches of a hawthorn aside and ventures through nettles, belly-high; her…
Lombardy, Autumn 1652. Weary of being abused by the nobility and the soldiers that keep pillaging the land, a group…