The Darkest Night

10 hrs. 20 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Jennifer Robson

Narrator Marina Titova

Description

Autumn 1943. The life of Italian Jews, such as the family of Antonina Mazzini, becomes increasingly dangerous. When Nazi Germany occupies much of her beloved homeland, and an unavoidable threat of imprisonment and deportation hangs over her, Nina has only one chance to survive: leave Venice and her parents behind to hide in a village, along with a man she barely knows. Nico Giarardi studied to be a priest until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary and run the family farm. As a man with strong moral principles, he simply couldn’t stand aside when Nazis threatened the lives of innocent people. To help Nina, he persuades her to pretend to be his fiancée. Now both of them must portray a happy couple so that no one suspects their dangerous secret. But country life is hard for a city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor, and local neighbors view Nico’s gentle and educated, yet completely unfamiliar, woman with suspicion. And worst of all, their distrust is shared by the local Nazi official—a man who knew Nico from seminary and has old scores to settle with him. The more he learns about Nina, the more his suspicions grow—and with them, his determination to take revenge…