![]() ![]() For fans of Amor Towles, Anthony Doerr and Jess Walter, it is a deeply human and transporting testament to the possibility of love and understanding across gaps of all kinds – even time.įrom the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.įew books have made me want to crawl inside and live there but Return to Valetto invoked those feelings intensely. Who will answer for the crimes of the past?ĭominic Smith’s Return to Valetto is a riveting journey into one family’s long-buried story, a page-turning excavation of the ruins of history and our commitment to justice in a fragile world. Like so many threads of history, this revelation unravels a secret – a betrayal, a disappearance and an unspeakable act of violence – that has impacted Valetto across generations. The unwelcome guest is the captivating and no-nonsense Elisa Tomassi, who asserts that the family patriarch, Aldo Serafino, a resistance fighter whom her own family harboured, gave the cottage to them in gratitude. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns.īut someone else has arrived before him, laying claim to the cottage where Hugh spent his childhood summers. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino – three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother – who live quietly in their medieval villa. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II-centuries of earthquakes, landslides and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. ![]() A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II.
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