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The Garden of Letters by Alyson Richman takes place in Italy during WWII. I have not visited Italy in WWII through the pages of a book since reading The Garden of the Finzi-Continis during my teen years. Regrettably, I have not read Alyson Richman since The Mask Carver’s Son which I very much admired for the way it showed the differences between the perspective of art as a tradition, and the perspective of art as an individual accomplishment. In The Garden of Letters Richman deals with the persp
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A gifted musician with a photographic memory, Elodie Bertolotti is a young student focused on her cello, practicing her notes and gearing up for her performances. Then World War II reaches the town of Verona and her father… and her life is changed forever. She becomes a messenger for the Italian Resistance and her unique musical talent is put to use in ways she could never have dreamed. Although the book is set during the war, the war is not front and center like it was in The Lost Wife; instead
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