
The Innocent Days of War
A Novel
Other Press LLC
Published on 28. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-63542-414-0 (ISBN)
Description
"In this gripping coming-of-age novel, a group of young people's lives collide in unexpected ways as World War II transforms Italy and England. Central Italy, on the eve of the Second World War. A group of young Italians find themselves in the midst of what will soon become a civil war. Among them is Stefano Portelli, a hopeful lawyer with a head full of utopias, in love with Eleonora. And there is his sister-in-law Nina, secretly linked to Sergio, a partisan leader. Other lives run parallel to theirs: that of Alastair Ormiston, an English Royal Air Force Pilot, who adores Virginia Woolf's books and dreams of the ideal companion. And that of Edna, his best friend who, in a London bombed by the Nazis, discovers herself and her happiness. If their paths intersect in a shocking way, shuffling the cards of history, it will be through the work of a destiny greater than them, burning them in a bonfire where everything is consumed-joy and pain together"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63542-414-0 (9781635424140)
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10/2025
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Mario Fortunato