The most famous Italian novel, retold for children "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 history, filled with war, famine and plague - will they ever be able to find happiness together?
Author Biography
Umberto Eco is an Italian writer, philosopher, semiotician and literary critic. In 1980, his novel The Name of the Rose became an internationally acclaimed bestseller, and he has since published numerous novels, children's books and works of non-fiction. Most recently, his novel The Prague Cemetery was shortlisted for the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
