02931cam a2200433 i 4500 483645724 TxGeo 20210205120000.0 201230s2021||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780063062443 trade pbk. 0063062445 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1228350952 TxGeo rda Robson, Jennifer, 1970- Our darkest night [large print] : a novel of Italy and the Second World War / Jennifer Robson. First Harper Large Print edition. New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. ℗2021. 452 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20210215. 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. Large type books. QS5