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Title Our darkest night [large print] : a novel of Italy and the Second World War / Jennifer Robson.
Publisher New York : Harper Large Print, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Description 452 pages ; 23 cm
Edition First Harper Large Print edition.


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 DX-Room 210 - Adult  LARGE TYPE ROBSON Nearby on shelf  3 1974 02116 2952 12-27-22  AVAILABLE
Note Includes a glossary of terms (pages [443]-447).
Summary "It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive--to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family's farm. A moral and just man, he could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love. But farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico's provincial neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not know. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official with a vendetta against Nico. The more he learns of Nina, the more his suspicions grow--and with them his determination to exact revenge. As Nina and Nico come to know each other, their feelings deepen, transforming their relationship into much more than a charade. Yet both fear that every passing day brings them closer to being torn apart . . . "--Amazon.com.
Subject Jewish women -- Fiction.
Jews -- Italy -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Fiction.
Italy -- History -- German occupation, 1943-1945 -- Fiction.
Genre Large print books.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
ISBN 9780063062443
0063062445