The New Vine

By (author) Robert Marrone
Categories: Fiction: general and literary, Fiction and Related items, Historical fiction
Series: Essential Prose Series
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Paperback : 9781771831475, 274 pages, April 2017

Description

In post-WWII Italy, Passero, having lost his parents, kidnaps an orphaned girl and offers her up in exchange for his own freedom. His actions create a connection culminating in an adulterous affair in 1960s Toronto—and an illegitimate son named Ethan, an artist who inherits Passero’s family vineyard.