A Piazza for Sant'antonio

<p><center><b>A New Decade and New Stories</b></center></p> <p>IN PAUL SALSINI?S FIRST NOVEL of this series <i>The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany</i> (first place winner Council for Wisconsin Writers and Midwest Independent Publishers Association) terrified villagers were trapped in a farmhouse during World War II. In the second <i>Sparrow?s Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany</i> a partisan hunted down the collaborator of a horrific massacre. In the third <i>Dino?s Story: A Novel of 1960s Tuscany</i> a boy came of age during the devastating flood of Florence in 1966. Then the characters entered a new decade in <i>The Temptation of Father Lorenzo: Ten Stories of 1970s Tuscany</i> (first place winner Midwest Independent Publishers Association).</p> <p>NOW THESE BELOVED CHARACTERS along with a few new friends and relatives return in <i>A Piazza for Sant?Antonio Five Novellas of 1980s Tuscany</i>.</p> <p>IN THE FIRST STORY Donna writes a cookbook that makes her famous and threatens her marriage. In another little Pasquale in trying to save a cat teaches the people of his village understanding. When Sant?Antonio is ridiculed because it lacks a piazza a mysterious man who lives in an abandoned monastery comes to the rescue. Meanwhile when Dino seeks his roots he discovers a heroic grandfather a loving uncle and a doomed village that may be inhabited by ghosts. And in Florence Father Lorenzo tries to cope with the hysteria brought about by a serial killer of young lovers.</p>