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Title Statement | Mussolini's island / Sarah Day. |
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Author | Day, Sarah |
Publication | London: Tinder Press,2017. |
Extent of Item | 374 pages ; |
ISBN | 1472238192 9781472238191 |
Other Number | 3393183 |
Summary | When Francesco is rounded up with a group of young men and herded into a camp on the island of San Domino, he realises that someone has handed a list of names to the fascist police; everyone is suspicious of one another. His former lover Emilio is constantly agitating for revolution. His old friend Gio jealously watches their relationship rekindle. Locked in spartan dormitories, resentment and bitterness between the men grows each day. Elena, a young and illiterate island girl on the cusp of womanhood, is drawn to the handsome Francesco yet fails to understand why her family try to keep her away from him. By day, she makes and floats her paper birds, willing them to fly from the island, just as she wants to herself. Sometimes, she is given a message to pass on. She's not sure who they are from; she knows simply that Francesco is hiding something. When Elena discovers the truth about the group of prisoners, the fine line between love and hate pulls her towards an act that can only have terrible consequences for all. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Gay men--Fiction--Italy |
Political prisoners--Fiction | |
Fascism--Fiction--Italy | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Italy | |
Male homosexuality--Fiction | |
By Location | Italy--Fiction--History--20th century |
By Genre | Historical fiction |