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Vittoria is a noble Jewish woman living in northern Italy. With the onset of World War II, her life changes completely. When the Nazis arrive in the quiet town, the entire family is forced to flee and cross the border to Switzerland using fake identities. But not everything goes according the plan. One of her children is not allowed to cross the border with the rest of the family and must be left behind. Now, Vittoria must make a critical decision that could scar her and the family forever.

When their father dies, Agnes Deterville and her sister Ella must forge their own paths in life. Headstrong Agnes dreams of a new life far away. Cautious Ella fears the world beyond their small village in St Lucia. When Agnes departs for a new life in 1950s London, they are both confronted by heartbreak, loneliness, and tragedy. Separated by an ocean, but bound by love, can the sisters keep their island song singing in their hearts?

La quiete della notte tra il 16 e il 17 luglio 1937 viene turbata a Bellano da un grido di donna. Trattasi di Emerita Diachini in Panicarli, che urla "Al ladro! Al ladro!" perché ha visto un'ombra sospetta muoversi tra i muri di via Manzoni. E in effetti un balordo viene poi rocambolescamente acciuffato dalla guardia notturna Romeo Giudici. È Serafino Caiazzi, noto alle cronache del paese per altri piccoli reati finiti in niente soprattutto per le sue incapacità criminali. Chiaro che il ladro è lui, chi altri?

Con grazia e ironia Andrea Vitali imbastisce una nuova storia dall'intreccio imprevedibile e commovente. Nella sua Bellano, specchio di un mondo passato ma a suo modo sempre attuale, si muovono i personaggi della "Verità della suora storta", ognuno alla ricerca di un approdo che metta pace tra i segreti e le speranze della propria vita, strappandoci un sorriso per le soluzioni a volte stravaganti o strampalate che mettono in scena.

Publicado originalmente en 1996, este hermoso libro de Ida Vitale, situado a medio camino entre la prosa y la poesía, reúne cuentos, fábulas y alegorías que conforman una suerte de bestiario humano en el que la premio Cervantes uruguaya revisita algunos mitos clásicos y da cabida a la fantasía de aliento borgiano.

London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust her precious baby to her best friend, Eunice, to take back home to Antigua. But their plan goes disastrously wrong. In the decades that follow, all of them will witness - and play a part in - the seismic changes rocking the British Isles, as the old establishment crumbles, immigration builds and the country adjusts to the realities of a post-war, post-colonial future.

Faith, Hope and Glory charts the lives of three African-Caribbean families, connected forever by the theft of a beautiful pram in Tilbury in 1946. As they live through the eighty years since then, they witness and take part in the emergence of the modern United Kingdom.