L'italienne

'Completely wonderful… if you're meeting her work for the first time, get ready for a lifelong affair' Kathryn StockettLove and family, war and loss, betrayal and risk… lie deep at the heart of Adriana Trigiani's stunning new novelCiro and Enza are teenagers when they meet in the small village nestled high in the Italian Alps they call home. Their connection is brief but wonderfully intense.When Ciro is sent, in disgrace, to America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy, he leaves behind a bereft Enza. Her family faces sudden disaster and she too is forced to flee to America with her father to secure their future.Unbeknownst to one another, Ciro and Enza build fledgling lives in New York, making their separate ways in a new country, until fate intervenes and reunites them. But it is too late: Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I and Enza must learn to forge a life without him, as a seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera House.As their destinies intertwine, and the world they know is changed irrevocably by war, the two must decide if their future lies together or apart…'Utterly addictive' GlamourBiographie de l'auteurAdriana Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and now lives with her husband and daughter in New York City. In addition to being the bestselling author of BIG STONE GAP, BIG CHERRY HOLLER and MILK GLASS MOON, she is an award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker.