Jill Wallace

This novel was set in Durban, South Africa. I had no idea that Italian POW's were sent to camps in South Africa! (93,000 of them!) This is the story of Pietro, an one-time favorite opera singer of Mussolini who fell from grace and was sent to the Durban POW camp. He falls in love with his nurse and they begin a love affair. One must suspend your belief in reality at Pietro leaving the camp weekly, sometimes for the weekend, and returning to see his nurse lover. I learned some history, but the story was just lacking. I listened to this on Audio and found the reader had an overly affected Italian accent, annoyingly so! 14 hrs 5 mins=464 pages… (más)