The War Ends At Four
- Family novel
- Categories:Women's Fiction
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:May,2023
- Pages:210
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Review
"This is an extraordinary novel of glance and gesture--one of the finest I've ever read. How to know your essential self? How to know that of another? If you're a galloping reader, Horseman, pass by. Here, a warm eye is cast on the mille-seconds of feeling and meaning--the real stuff of life. Stay, read on: All your senses, attention itself, will be enriched." —Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife; Four Spirits; The Fountain of St. James Court, or Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman
Description
THE WAR ENDS AT FOUR explores the quest of a perpetual outsider looking for a true home while coming to terms with the Italy she left behind and the America she found. Renata, an Italian acupuncturist in Minneapolis, falls madly in love with a charismatic actor. Once married, she discovers his passion is not focused on her alone. With her marriage and her small acupuncture clinic in crisis, she is called to her father's deathbed in Milan. There Renata again faces the slights she suffered in childhood as the daughter of an immigrant from Naples. Gripped by grief and anxiety over her future, she discovers that her father, a survivor of WWII, believed until the end in risk-taking as a life-affirming necessity. With newfound courage, Renata stumbles into the lure of an old love and the magic of a new one.