The Garden of angels / David Hewson.
"The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice's Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he's waited his whole life to share. When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . . Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather's life: when Paolo's support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city's underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can't stop reading - but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all."--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780727850119
- ISBN: 0727850113
- Physical Description: 314 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First world edition.
- Publisher: Edinburgh : Severn House, ©2021.
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Subject: | Family secrets > Fiction. Conflict of generations > Fiction. Grandfathers > Death > Fiction. Nazis > Italy > Fiction. Venice (Italy) > History > 20th century > Fiction. Venice (Italy) |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Historical fiction. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Cass County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Archie | F HEW 2021 (Text) | 0002205554088 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Harrisonville | F HEW 2021 (Text) | 0002205554070 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice's Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he's waited his whole life to share. When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . . Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather's life: when Paolo's support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city's underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can't stop reading - but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all."--Provided by publisher.