Dino’s Story

From a tiny isolated village to the high art of Florence, Dino's Story: A Novel of 1960s Tuscany completes the sweeping narrative of ''A Tuscan Trilogy.'' A boy just born in the first novel of the trilogy comes to Florence to study art, and, in this tumultuous decade of change, he is himself transformed as a devastating flood ruins not only works of art but also the lives of the poor and helpless._x000D_

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In the first of the trilogy, The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany, terrified villagers confront seemingly insurmountable dangers while trapped in a farmhouse during the German occupation of 1944. In the second, Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany, set in 1955, a guilt-ridden partisan relentlessly pursues the collaborator of one of the worst massacres in Italy during World War II._x000D_

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Martha Bergland, author of A Farm Under a Lake, calls Dino's Story a ''fascinating inside look at Florence through the eyes of Paul Salsini's warm and complex characters. I couldn't put it down.'' La