{"product_id":"home-elsewhere-9798218064686","title":"Home Elsewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marianne Rutter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Marianne Rutter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Marianne Rutter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the fall of 1942 and \u003cb\u003eGiampaolo Stagno\u003c\/b\u003e is starving. A soldier in the beleaguered Italian Army, the young Sicilian is captured and shipped from North Africa to the United States as a prisoner of war, assigned to a POW camp in New Jersey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA hundred miles from the camp, in Pennsylvania, \u003cb\u003eEleanor Fazzio \u003c\/b\u003eis also starving-for a different life. She\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eworks in a textile mill and returns home each day to her mother and cousins and their close-knit Italian-American immigrant community. War has limited the possibilities for a thirty-year-old woman in Eleanor's corner of America, and she longs for another kind of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiampaolo and Eleanor know nothing of each other, though they share the customs and dialect of their island homeland, Sicily. Fate conspires to bring the couple together: their common heritage, shaped thousands of miles apart, forges a tentative bond between them. But the vagaries of a world war and its aftermath drive them apart, thrusting the pair into an uncertain future.","brand":"Marianne Rutter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45564829532311,"sku":"9798218064686","price":1644.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798218064686.webp?v=1767929463","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/home-elsewhere-9798218064686","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}