Prince of the Clouds

Palermo, 1946. Carlo Terzo, a retired military strategist who has never seen combat, is teaching young Salvatore Dragonara military history while Terzo works on his Manual for Strategic Living, in which he hopes to apply the hard lessons of war to daily life. Salvatore is in love with the young & beautiful Fiore, whose mother, the Duchess Mastema, is a rich & cruel landowner. When Terzo & his young friends visit the duchess's lands, they are caught in a pitched battle between the oppressed peasants & the duchess's hired thugs, & Terzo is forced to put his strategic wisdom to the test. Like Louis de Bernieres's Corelli's Mandolin, Gianni Riotta's charming & provocative romance explores the large & small matters of love & war, shifting between the turbulence of postwar Sicily & the great battles of ancient & modern history. A major bestseller in Italy, Prince of the Clouds is a deeply moving work of fiction, imbued with rare vibrance & feeling.Riotta, Gianni is the author of 'Prince of the Clouds' with ISBN 9780374237257 and ISBN 0374237255.