num_pages: 219
description: This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the Allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief.
language: English
title: The City and the House
titlecomplete: The City and the House
characters: Alberico, Roberta, Danny, Serena, Salvatore, Albina, Feruccio, Nadia, Egisto, Anne Marie, Giuseppe, Piero, Lucrezia
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, European Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1170
places: Princeton, New Jersey, Rome, Italy
publisher: Arcade Publishing