Hot Chocolate at Hanselmann's

by Rosetta Loy

Book Overview

A work of understated elegance and cumulative power, this novel eases readers into a drama unfolding within a Catholic family in Italy on the eve of World War II. As scenes only dimly understood by the child Lorenza are revisited by the woman she becomes, what seemed a family affair--a romance involving Lorenza's mother, her father's Jewish friend Arturo, and her aunt Margot in Switzerland--begins to reveal the broader outlines of the drama of history,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803280068
• ISBN13: 9780803280069
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 9.2"