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Promettimi che non moriremo
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When her father returns from the war in 1918, Caterina - Nina to everyone - does not recognize him. He is afraid: of his tired eyes, of dirty clothes, of thinness. He is only five years old, but he has already learned that being born in the Venetian mountains means hard work in the pastures and work in the woods. The day Mario, a playmate in the barns, leaves to move to Milan, Nina begins to desire another life. She spends hours on the few books she manages to obtain and learns the trade of a seamstress, driven by a calling: perhaps the desire for a better future, perhaps the dream of a love with Mario. Nina's story walks alongside the great stages of the history of the twentieth century, but is told from a new point of view: that of a Venetian province that changes, industrializes, while she, stubborn and rebellious, remains faithful to her ancient desires and to Mario, throughout the increasingly faster years. Mara Carollo's debut novel, Promise Me That We Won't Die says that yes, we often chase impossible illusions - and yet it's worth it. Because the journey, in the end, is everything
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