Vivid story of war-time
Pietro’s wife, Sarah, has walked out, leaving him because of their inability to conceive. They had been happy, but gradually a kind of grief had overtaken their lives. In going, she leaves a note informing him that his mother called, and that Mario is dead. Mario, his mother’s father, had been confined to a mental hospital. His name has gone unmentioned in 15 years.
Trying to come to terms with his crumbling world, Pietro immerses himself in his grand- father’s mostly hidden story, desperate to gain some sense of the man and, by extension, an understanding of life itself.
