Who will answer for the crimes of the past? To interview Dominic, we’re joined by Readings’ Managing Director, Mark Rubbo. 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. More Buying Choices 13. 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. FREE Shipping on orders over 25 shipped by Amazon. But someone else has arrived before him, laying claim to the cottage where Hugh spent his childhood summers. Its an art-world satire propelled by an action-packed heist. Not just the art objects, but the concepts that surround and protect them too. Then their nephew and grandson, Hugh, a historian, returns. The Turtlenecks are a heist-based performance art collective who specialise in stealing conceptual artworks. 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. In this episode, we're joined by Dominic Smith, author of the acclaimed Last Painting of Sara De Vos, a Readings favourite, to discuss his new book, Return to Valetto.
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