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The Italian Prisoner Kindle Edition
When the parish priest organizes a goodwill mission to visit Italian prisoners of war at a nearby military base, Rose and her vivacious best friend, Marie, join the group. There, Rose falls for Sal, a handsome and intelligent POW. Italy has switched sides in the war, so the POWs are allowed out to socialize, giving Rose and Sal a chance to grow closer. When Rose gets a promotion at work, she must make an agonizing choice: follow a traditional path like Marie or keep working after the war and live on her own terms.
Inspired by little-known historical events and set to a swing-era soundtrack, The Italian Prisoner is an engrossing story of wartime love, family secrets, and a young woman’s struggle to chart her own course at an inflection point in American history.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 11, 2022
- File size1598 KB
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Book Review 1:
"The repercussions of WWII are lovingly rendered through one woman's story, with an endearing cast of characters who all feel like family by the end."-LALITA TADEMY, New York Times best-selling author of Oprah's Book Club pick Cane River, Red River, and Citizens Creek
Book Review 2:
"... an essential contribution to the treasure trove of Italian American fiction and a transporting page-turner. I want everyone in my family to meet Rose, our inspiring heroine, whose extraordinary story will stay with me for a long time." -CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI, author of Leading Men
Book Review 3:
"... intimate historical fiction at its page-turning best."-PAMELA ROTNER SAKAMOTO, author of Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Book Review 4:
"... a compelling mix of freshness and familiarity, using a female rites-of-passage narrative to transport readers to 1940s New Orleans and to bring alive the timeless challenges of living in a nation at war."-ANN HAGEDORN, award-winning author of Beyond the River, Savage Peace, Sleeper Agent and more
Book Review 5:
"...a refreshing addition to the historical women's fiction bookshelf."-KAIA ALDERSON, author of Sisters in Arms
Book Review 6:
"A dazzling World War II love story set in New Orleans that will pull you in from the very first paragraph."-JENNIFER SMITH TURNER, award-winning author of Child Bride, named the Best eBook of 2020 by the Black Caucus of The American Library Association
Book Review 7:
"... a beautiful book that will touch anyone who ever dared want more out of life." -CHARLES FORREST JONES, author of The Illusion of Simple
Book Review 8:
"The author's keen eye for the history of those years are evident as delightful details of the city at war abound."-BRIAN ALTOBELLO, author of Whiskey, Women, and War: How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans
Book Review 9:
"With true-to-life family dynamics and the drama of first love, the author invites us to take a passeggiata alongside her heroine Rose."-SHAUNNA J. EDWARDS, co-author of The Thread Collectors
Book Review 10:
"...compelling, atmospheric, and refined. A truly magnificent read." -DIANNE C. BRALEY, author of The Silence in the Sound
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B09SHYR9V4
- Publisher : Burgundy Bend Press (April 11, 2022)
- Publication date : April 11, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 1598 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 306 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1662924135
- Best Sellers Rank: #690,772 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #264 in Historical Italian Fiction
- #3,119 in Cultural Heritage Fiction
- #131,573 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Elisa M. Speranza is the author of the 2022 novel The Italian Prisoner, a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She serves on the board of the New Orleans Writers Workshop and has been a featured author at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, the Louisiana Book Festival, the Islanders Write conference on Martha’s Vineyard, and the Salem (MA) LitFest. Born and raised in the Boston area, Ms. Speranza lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.
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Speranza’s prose emotionally and skillfully attaches the reader to the plight of a woman seeking to have a professional career during an era where numerous challenges surface both on the job and at home where she still lives with her parents.
The primary reason I was attracted to this book was because I wanted to learn more about the historic Italian community of New Orleans and the plight of the Italian POWs located in the city during the war. Speranza did not disappoint. She made the 1940s New Orleans Italian community come alive for me, and I was fascinated by the conflicted reception the Italian POWs received.
The author obviously did her research on the above and what life in the French Quarter was like during the war.
I highly recommend this book both from an enjoyment and educational perspective.