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Sette volte bosco
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Adalina is alone. She has been traveling on that old, creaking train for two days. There is no one beside her to hold, to comfort, or to feed. She has only a suitcase clutched between her legs—a makeshift thing of wood and cardboard, the latter nearly dissolved in the downpour. She is returning from Mitterndorf, a refugee camp for the people of South Tyrol—a region caught up in the front lines of the Great War—where she spent a harrowing year and lost her parents, who succumbed to exhaustion and grief. In the camp, through grueling days broken only by labor in a shoe factory, and long nights spent pressed against the bodies of other desperate souls, only two thoughts kept Adalina alive: her *màs*—the mountain farmstead passed down through generations of her family—and her brother, Emiliano. He had left to fight for an Empire that crumbled like a dry crust of bread; she has had no word from him for months, yet he remains the only person who still calls her by the name she loves: Lina. Upon returning home, Lina realizes that not only have her family, the borders, and the language changed, but the very mountains and forests are no longer the same—torn apart by bombardment, plundered, and stripped bare. The farmhouse, too, is partially collapsed and blackened by the fires of those who occupied it illegally. Yet, it still stands. Adalina knows that life is made of both bleak winters and flourishing springs; now is the time to begin anew, to heal the wounds of body and soul—for the sake of Emiliano, too, who will one day return from the war and must never think that Lina ever gave up. Then, one day, something shifts in the daily life she has so laboriously reclaimed. A young man has slipped into the *màs*: he is a soldier, like Emiliano; he speaks German—the real thing. And, just like Emiliano, he too now finds himself on the wrong side of the border.
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