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The Madonna of the Mountains : A Novel by Elise Valmorbida is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Madonna of the Mountains : A Novel about?
“A riveting adventure for the soul... just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water's Edge and Water for ElephantsAn epic, inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible Maria Vittoria is twenty-five when her father brings home the man who will become her husband. It is 1923 in the austere Italian mountain village where her family has lived for generations, and the man she sees is tall and handsome and has survived the First World War without any noticeable scars. Taking just the linens she has sewn that make up her dowry and a statue of the Madonna that sits by her bedside, Maria leaves the only life she has ever known to begin a family. But her future will not be what she imagines. The Madonna of the Mountains follows Maria over the next three decades, as she moves to the town where she and her husband become shopkeepers, through the birth of their five children, through the hardships and cruelties of the National Fascist Party Rule and the Second World War. Struggling with the cost of survival at a time
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Elise Valmorbida
- Publisher
- Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780399592430
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (250 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14