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The Bishop’s Villa
Sacha Naspini
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
From the author of Nives, a story of love, redemption, and resistance set in Italy during WWII
Tuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles from any big city and appears rooted in an earlier century. Seen from there, even the war looks different—it is mostly a matter of waiting, praying, and mourning. As a fierce winter threatens, an order is issued by the local Fascist authorities: all Jews must be rounded up and detained in the bishop’s villa to await deportation.
Shy, solitary, and taciturn René is the town’s cobbler. His only friend is the widow Anna, a woman with whom he has been secretly in love for years. When Anna’s son joins the Resistance and is swiftly captured and shot by the Wehrmacht, the grieving woman vows to continue her son’s mission, and one evening, she disappears into the woods. René later learns that a group of Resistance fighters has been ambushed and the survivors are imprisoned in the bishop’s villa. A woman is among them, they say, a grieving mother and former inhabitant of Le Case.
René can no longer stand by and watch as his town, his country, and his one great love become victims of the Nazis and their Fascist enablers, and he decides to take action. Perhaps for the first time in his life.
Based on the true story of a nefarious collaboration between the Catholic diocese of Grosseto and the Fascist authorities, The Bishop’s Villa is a masterful weaving together of fact and fiction by one of Italy’s most exciting young writers.
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Memory and war, Small-town dynamics WWII, Resistance to Nazi occupation, Love and redemption, Liberation and loss, Personal sacrifice in war, Tale of human spirit, Anti-fascist resistance, Poignant WWII tale, Tuscan landscape WWII, Wehrmacht in Italy, Maremma, Tuscany, Historical fiction Italy, Indomitable human spirit, Unrequited love story, Moral dilemmas in war, Italian resistance, Concentration camp, Wartime survival story, Italian rural community, Italian village life, Nives, WWII personal narratives, Italian historical backdrop, Jewish internment Italy, Female resistance fighter, Resistance against fascism, Shoemaker protagonist, Partisan movement Italy, War's emotional toll, Courage and cowardice, WWII Italy, War impact on civilians