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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 40 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Richard Armitage. |
| Summary |
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. 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Grandfathers -- Death -- Fiction.
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Nazis -- Italy -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Venice -- Fiction.
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Venice (Italy) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Armitage, Richard, 1971- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781004037391 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1004037392 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13921935 |
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