Description
'You will look after them for me, my poor orphan children.'
Domenica could not hold back the tears. 'I will Mamma, I promise, do not worry about us. We will be alright.'
Picinisco, Italy 1945: the war may be over, but for Domenica and her family the struggle for survival carries on. Dealing with the cruel legacy of the battle of Monte Cassino, a now parentless seventeen-year-old Domenica finds herself bound by a promise to care for her 5 younger siblings.
Will she be able to provide for them as food grows scarce? Will she hold the family together? Will this promise cost Domenica her own future with the man she loves?
A fictionalised account of real events, Domenica weaves a rural tale full of home truths in the idyllic Abruzzo Apennines. Through a single shepherding family and its strong-willed eldest daughter, Serafina Crolla exposes the human cost of war beyond the battlefield in a poignant depiction of love and grief, pain and union.
Author: Serafina Crolla
Publisher: Luath Press Limited
Published: 12/01/2022
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781804250693
ISBN10: 1804250694
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | World War II
- Fiction | Family Life | General
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