03097cam a2200469 i 4500 548463086 TxAuBib 20220209120000.0 201224s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063059405 hbk. 0063059401 hbk. 9780062674975 pbk. 0062674978 pbk. (OCoLC)1153464285 TxAuBib rda Robson, Jennifer, 1970- Our darkest night : a novel of Italy and the Second World War / Jennifer Robson. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] 362, 14 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more. Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-14). Library Journal Prepub Alert, 080120, p. 39. Booklist, 110120, p. 28. "It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive--to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family's farm. A moral and just man, he could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love. But farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico's provincial neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not know. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official with a vendetta against Nico. The more he learns of Nina, the more his suspicions grow--and with them his determination to exact revenge. As Nina and Nico come to know each other, their feelings deepen, transforming their relationship into much more than a charade. Yet both fear that every passing day brings them closer to being torn apart..."-- Provided by publisher. 20220209. Jewish women Italy Fiction. Jews Italy Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Italy Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Farmers Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Nazis Fiction. Italy History German occupation, 1943-1945 Fiction. Historical fiction. Romance fiction.