The children's train : a novel / Viola Ardone ; translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York, NY : HarperVia, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 306 pages ; 24 cm. A Note on the Lyrics, A Note From the TranslatorContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062940506; 9780062940513Uniform titles: Treno dei bambini. English Subject(s): Children -- Italy -- Fiction | Families -- Italy -- Fiction | Italy -- History -- 1945-1976 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: 853/.92 LOC classification: PQ4901.R43 | T7413 2021Summary: Though Mussolini and the fascists have been defeated, the second world war has devastated Italy, especially the south. Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother Antonietta in Naples, surviving on odd jobs and his wits like the rest of the poor in his neighborhood. Then Amerigo learns that a train will take him away from the rubble-strewn streets of the city to spend the winter with a family in the north, where he will be safe and have warm clothes and food to eat. Together with thousands of other southern children, Amerigo will cross the entire peninsula to a new life-- Provided by publisher.
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Originally published as Il treno dei bambini in Italy in 2019 by Einaudi.
Though Mussolini and the fascists have been defeated, the second world war has devastated Italy, especially the south. Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother Antonietta in Naples, surviving on odd jobs and his wits like the rest of the poor in his neighborhood. Then Amerigo learns that a train will take him away from the rubble-strewn streets of the city to spend the winter with a family in the north, where he will be safe and have warm clothes and food to eat. Together with thousands of other southern children, Amerigo will cross the entire peninsula to a new life-- Provided by publisher.
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