After Long Silence by Helen Fremont

Author:Helen Fremont [Fremont, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80465-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

Sometime in late 1941 Zosia introduced her sister to the Italian officers stationed in Lvov, and my mother was an instant hit, especially with the chief transportation engineer, Luigi Cotulli—a soft-spoken man in his mid-thirties, with dark chocolate eyes, a sharp Adam’s apple, and an easy smile. My mother spoke nearly fluent Italian after her stint at the University of Rome, and she had two years of experience as a translator for the Russians. Luigi hired my mother on the spot.

Within a few weeks she had made herself indispensable, organizing the bookkeeping, translating documents, and answering correspondence. This is when my mother began to play her role as Maria, the Catholic sister-in-law of an Italian count, and none of the Italians suspected otherwise.

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