Animals of the Alpine Front African to Simone Bergeron

to Simone Bergeron

Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant

during the Second World War

Jen lays bare the disorienting upheaval of midlife--the implosion of a marriage

Animals of the Alpine Front African to Simone BergeronFrom a remote village between Italy and the Austro Hungarian Empire unrolls the intimate story of Teresa and Carlo, two young people whose paths cross and recross as they are first impelled by parents, then forced by sweeping world events to leave their childhood homes for lives they never imagined. Having left her mother and cherished dog Allucio, in Ulfano, Teresa works as a domestic servant in a large villa in Trento. She survives the Great War in