The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph Fasano

Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Salò. The title track from his most recent album The Wind That Knows the Way will play at the end of this episode.īook Synopsis: 'From Joseph Fasano, the acclaimed author of The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, comes The Swallows of Lunetto, the powerful story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War.Īlexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy's Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. If you go to the Maudlin House website to purchase The Swallows of Lunetto, you can enter in the promo code saltlake to get 10% off.Īlso, make sure to check out Joseph’s music.

An incredible book and beautifully written! If you have a book club this is a novel that I think would spark some fascinating conversations. It’s the story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War. His latest novel The Swallows of Lunetto came out on Maudlin House this past November. When Alexandra meets a masked figure in the streets of Lunetto, she cannot imagine what she will learn about history and her place in it.Ī sweeping love story and historical drama, The Swallows of Lunetto is a timely meditation on the left-right political divide, the reckonings of inherited trauma, and the potential of forgiveness to heal deeply divisive wounds.Today I welcome Joseph Fasano to the show. From Joseph Fasano, the acclaimed author of The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, comes The Swallows of Lunetto, the powerful story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War.Īlexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy's Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945.

The Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph Fasano