num_pages: 360
description: Roland Merullo bestselling author of Once Night Falls returns with a galvanizing historical novel of Nazi-occupied Naples and the rage and resistance of a people under siege.Italy 1943. The Nazi occupation has cemented its grip on the devastated city of Naples.Giuseppe DiPietra a curator in the National Archives has a subversive plan to aid the Allies. If hes discovered forced labor or swift execution. Lucia Pastone secretary for the Italian Fascist government is risking her own life in secret defiance of orders. And Lucias father Aldo is a black marketeer who draws Giuseppe and Lucia into the underworldfor their protection and to help plant the seeds of resistance. Their fates are soon intertwined with those of Aldos devoted lover and a boy of the streets wholl do anything to live another day. And all of Naples is about to join forces to overcome impossible odds and repel the Nazi occupiers.Inspired by a true historic uprising From These Broken Streets is a richly layered novel of the extraordinary daring of ordinary people whose bonds of love family and unfaltering courage could not be broken.
language: English
title: From These Broken Streets
publisher: Lake Union Publishing