A huge international bestseller, this heartbreaking tale of a tiny Italian village during two World Wars will stay with you forever. Among the olive groves and vineyards of southern Italy, a boy and a girl are born, moments apart. All except him. Growing up together, war seems far away for the two children.

Rafel Nadal Farreras is an award-winning Catalan journalist and author. This is his first novel to be translated into English.