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The Garden of Angels (inbunden, eng)
At his beloved Nonno Paolo''s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manusc...
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At his beloved Nonno Paolo''s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943.
A Times Best Thriller Book of 2022
The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice''s Grand CanalAwkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he''s waited his whole life to share.
When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week''s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno PaoloA history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . .
Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather''s life: when Paolo''s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city''s underground resistanceHooked and unsettled, Nico can''t stop reading - but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.
Format | Inbunden |
Omfång | 480 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Canongate Books |
Utgivningsdatum | 2021-08-26 |
ISBN | 9781780291956 |
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- Inbunden, 480, Engelska, Canongate Books, 2021-08-26, 9781780291956
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 480
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Canongate Books
- Utgivningsdatum 2021-08-26
- ISBN 9781780291956