num_pages: 272
description: Adriana Nardi is only 10 years old when Allied forces occupy her lush island home during World War II, plaguing the quiet Italian village with violence and uncertainty. Amdu is a Senegalese soldier who abandons his comrades and befriends Adriana after witnessing an unspeakable act that has far-reaching repercussions.Decades later, on a commuter train bound for Penn Station, 60-year-old Adriana revisits her memories of the war and her doomed relationship with Amdu, even as a present crisis threatens her life.
language: English
title: Liberation
titlecomplete: Liberation
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 73
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Little, Brown and Company