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But as tempting as it is to leave behind this war-torn country and her painful memories for a new life in America, can she go without learning her husband's fate? So when an American soldier named Frank is stranded on the mountain, Graziella embraces this unexpected chance at being happy again. With Ugo gone, it seems as if she will be trapped forever on this remote farm with her lost husband's difficult family. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. 'Just until the war is over,' Ugo had promised, but it has been months now since the Nazis retreated, and no one has seen him since. Macmillan, Apr 1, 2007- Fiction- 224 pages. Ugo, trading in his violin for a gun, joined the Resistance, while Graziella was forced to seek refuge at his family's farm in the nearby Euganean Hills.

But when Italy allied itself with Nazi Germany in 1940, her world changed forever. For Graziella, the quiet, cultured life she lived in Venice with her musician husband, Ugo, was everything she could have hoped for.

The Sidewalk Artist by Gina Buonaguro