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Watching Over Her

Veiller sur elle

Jean-Baptiste Andrea (born 1971)

Translated by Frank Wynne

English editions

In English

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Mimo, a poor boy with gifted hands, is apprenticed to a mediocre stonemason; Viola Orsini, raised in a noble palace near Genoa, refuses her assigned role. Meeting, they know each other at once and can neither stay together nor part, as fascism rises.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
580 pages in the original
Genres
Love, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Italy
First published
2023 by L'Iconoclaste
Author's age
52 when first published
ISBN

9782378803759 (original)

9781805462736 (Atlantic Books, United Kingdom)

9781668221969 (Simon & Schuster, United States)

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