The Search for the Rafaeli Necklace - Couverture souple

Anderson, Dotty

 
9781542486170: The Search for the Rafaeli Necklace

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Audrey McMillan joins her professor father during his summer sabbatical at the University of Bologna. On the first day she arrives, she is approached by Carlotta, a strange old woman who sets her on a dangerous adventure through Northern Italy to find the clues to the location of a priceless necklace hidden by her Nazi father during the war. Carlotta, obsessed by guilt for being the illegitimate daughter of a Nazi SS officer, wants to find the necklace so it can be returned to the daughter of the original owners. Audrey is tormented by the idea that she could have prevented the suicide of a high school friend; thus she is sympathetic to Carlotta’s plight and decides to help her, even when it becomes clear that the Mafia is on her trail. This contemporary travel story, which includes the tragic history of Carlotta and her parents, is lightened with romantic comedy when Audrey meets two very different university students. Its poignant theme concerns the destructive power of guilt and healing power of human forgiveness.

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