The Girl from Venice (Hardcover)

from purpledog

The Girl from Venice is set in the waning days of WWII. The populace of Italy has come to realize that Germany is losing the war no matter what the propaganda says. The lines of loyalty are being drawn causing towns and families to be divided. Cenzo is a fisherman of the lagoons in Venice. One ni...

from 66usma

I thought the book was interesting and a quick read. The work takes place in the area near Venice at he end of he Second World War as the war is winding down in Italy. The story involves a fisherman and a young Jewish girl whose suddenly he finds swimming near his boat whose parents have been kil...

from Lschwarzman

I enjoyed this book. The characters and plot are well developed, and the scenes the language allowed me to create in my mind were great. It started out a little slow, but definitely picked up, and I couldn't put it down. A great, and unique perspective on WWII. Highly recommend it!

from Beamis12

3.5 Three brothers, Hugo whose death provides fodder later on, Giorgio who becomes an actor, the lion of Italy and later Mussolini's propaganda chief and Cenzio, who wants only to be a fisherman on his island Pellistrina , plying his trade on the Ventian canals. On one such trip he discovers a yo...

from datrappert

Near the end of World War II, an Italian fisherman finds a girl's body floating in the waters near Venice. Thus begins an engrossing story that carries us from Venice to Salo, the capital of the Italian Fascist Republic, where Mussolini is hiding out with, among others, the fisherman's actor brot...