02375cam a2200421 i 4500 500549034 TxAuBib 20210421120000.0 201124s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020053286 9780525539766 hardcover 052553976X hardcover (OCoLC)1179046529 TxAuBib rda Scottoline, Lisa. Eternal / Lisa Scottoline. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021] xii, 468 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937, all of that begins to change as Mussolini asserts his power, aligning Italy's Fascists with Hitler's Nazis and altering the very laws that govern Rome. In time, everything that the three hold dear--their families, their homes, and their connection to one another--is tested in ways they never could have imagined. As anti-Semitism takes legal root and World War II erupts, the threesome realizes that Mussolini was only the beginning. The Nazis invade Rome, and with their occupation come new atrocities against the city's Jews, culminating in a final, horrific betrayal"--Provided by publisher. 20210421. World War, 1939-1945 Italy Rome Fiction. Fascism Italy Fiction. Jews Italy Fiction. Antisemitism Italy Fiction. Families Fiction. Survival Fiction. Loyalty Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Fiction Historical. Best friends Fiction. Rome (Italy) History Fiction. Italy History 1922-1945 Fiction. Historical fiction.