Review: Fascinating insight into little known part of Italian history
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
Being an Italophile I found the Piedmontese sections of this novel, set between the two wars, particularly fascinating. It's not a time and place I had read much about and now I feel I know more. The depiction of family dynamics in the novel is particularly strong. I felt for Pietro even though I knew he didn't always deserve my sympathy. The women were very nicely depicted indeed, and I found myself variously moved and amused by them. This is a good family sage.