The bishop's villa / Sacha Naspini ; translated by Clarissa Botsford.

London : Europa Editions, 2025.

220 pages ; 21 cm

Translated from the Italian.

Tuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles from any big city and remains rooted in an earlier century. Seen from Le Case, even the war looks different - mostly a matter of waiting, praying, and mourning. As a fierce winter threatens, an ominous order is issued by the local Fascist authorities: all Jews must be rounded up and detained in the bishop's villa to await deportation. René is the town's cobbler. A loner, his only friend is the widow Anna, a woman with whom he has been secretly in love for years. When Anna's son joins the Resistance but is soon killed by the Wehrmacht, the grieving woman vows to continue her son's mission. René later learns that a group of Resistance fighters has been ambushed and the survivors are imprisoned in the bishop's villa.

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