This is definitely not an easy read.  It is slow, and methodical, much like each of the characters. Their stories are revealed through a series of flashbacks, as well as in their current situation.  For me it revealed itself as a mystery, for in the end nothing was as it seemed in the beginning. It is the story of four troubled people who all find themselves, through different circumstances, living together in a bombed out Italian villa at the end of WWII.  They are all […]