The Story of the Betrothed

by Umberto Eco

This marriage is not supposed to happen.

Lombardy, 1628, a time of oppressive Spanish occupation of Northern Italy, and of the Thirty Years' War. The young lovers Lorenzo and Lucia, both from peasant families, are planning their wedding. However, the villainous Don Rodrigo has designs on Lucia, and the lovers are forced to flee their village. Their dangerous journey in exile takes them through one of the most dramatic epochs in Italian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782690220
• ISBN13: 9781782690221
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7