相關商品
商品簡介
作者簡介
商品簡介
Two strangers save a child in Rome during WWII-a split-second decision that will have powerful reverberations for decades to come.
In 1943, one young woman, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee occupied Rome for the safetyof her grandparents' house in the hills. Another has been herded onto a truck with her husband and their children, and will shortly be driven offinto the darkness.
In that brief moment, before she has time to think about what she is doing, Chiara makes a decision that changes her life forever. Consumed already by thoughts of the hazardous journey that looms ahead and the sister who needs her constant care, Chiara now finds herself responsible, suddenly, for a child-a child with no papers who refuses to speak.
Three decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, an elegant, self-contained, self-possessed woman to all appearances quite content with a life that revolves around work, friends, music, and the theater. But always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, the boy from the truck, whose absence and the havoc he wreaked on her world haunt her every moment. For so long she succeeds in suppressing the painful memories and keeping her heartache at bay, but when she receives a call from a teenage girl with a surprising link to Daniele, Chiara knows that it is time for her to face up to her past.
Suspenseful, inspiring, and gorgeously told, this is an epic novel of love, loss, and war's ripple effects through the years.
In 1943, one young woman, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee occupied Rome for the safetyof her grandparents' house in the hills. Another has been herded onto a truck with her husband and their children, and will shortly be driven offinto the darkness.
In that brief moment, before she has time to think about what she is doing, Chiara makes a decision that changes her life forever. Consumed already by thoughts of the hazardous journey that looms ahead and the sister who needs her constant care, Chiara now finds herself responsible, suddenly, for a child-a child with no papers who refuses to speak.
Three decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, an elegant, self-contained, self-possessed woman to all appearances quite content with a life that revolves around work, friends, music, and the theater. But always in the background is the shadow of Daniele, the boy from the truck, whose absence and the havoc he wreaked on her world haunt her every moment. For so long she succeeds in suppressing the painful memories and keeping her heartache at bay, but when she receives a call from a teenage girl with a surprising link to Daniele, Chiara knows that it is time for her to face up to her past.
Suspenseful, inspiring, and gorgeously told, this is an epic novel of love, loss, and war's ripple effects through the years.
作者簡介
Virginia Baily holds a PhD and MA in English from the University of Exeter. She founded and coedits Riptide, a short-story journal. She is also the coeditor of the political series of the Africa Research Bulletin. She lives in Exeter, England.
您曾經瀏覽過的商品
購物須知
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。