Hewson David - The Garden Of Angels - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed fifteen - year - old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi - occupied Venice in 1943. A Times Best Thriller Book of 2022 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.
Title: The Garden Of Angels
Author(s): Hewson David
Publisher: Canongate Books
Barcode: 9781780291956
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 10/26/2021
Category: Historical Fiction