Paul Salsini

A Tuscan Trilogy

Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany (Sep-2008)
Dino's Story: A Novel of 1960s Tuscany (Mar-2010)
The Temptation of Father Lorenzo: Ten Stories of 1970s Tuscany (Mar-2012)

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  The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany
  

  • Mar-2008
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  "Salsini spins a tale of both cruelty and courage and affirms, yet again, the ability of humans to endure."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Salsini's beautiful novel of Italy during World War II, peopled with a wide range of characters, deepens our know...

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  Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany
  

  • Sep-2008
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  A Tuscan Trilogy
  

  Praise for The Cielo "Salsini spins a tale of both cruelty and courage, and affirms yet again the ability of humans to endure."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "A moving debut novel of a luscious country too often forgotten when we consider the ravages of...

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  Dino's Story: A Novel of 1960s Tuscany
  

  • Mar-2010
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  A Tuscan Trilogy
  

  From a tiny isolated village to the high art of Florence, Dino's Story: A Novel of 1960s Tuscany completes the sweeping narrative of ''A Tuscan Trilogy.'' A boy just born in the first novel of the trilogy comes to Florence to study art, and, in this ...

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  The Temptation of Father Lorenzo: Ten Stories of 1970s Tuscany
  

  • Mar-2012
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  A Tuscan Trilogy
  

  Praise for A Tuscan Trilogy

  The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany. "A moving debut novel of a luscious country."

  - Jacqueline Mitchard, best-selling author of The Deep End of the Ocean.
  
  

  Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel...

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  Stefano and the Christmas Miracles
  

  • Oct-2012
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  Weeks before Christmas, little Stefano sits down with his grandfather Nonno and they put together their nativity scene, or presepio, one figure a day. Nonno tells Stefano the amazing story of each of the miniature people and about the wondrous miracl...

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  A Piazza for Sant'antonio
  

  • Apr-2014
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  A New Decade, and New Stories IN PAUL SALSINI'S FIRST NOVEL of this series, The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany (first place winner, Council for Wisconsin Writers and Midwest Independent Publishers Association), terrified villagers were trapped in ...

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  The Fearless Flag Thrower of Lucca
  

  • Apr-2016
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  A TUSCAN SERIES CONCLUDEDIN PAUL SALSINIS FIRST NOVEL OF THIS SERIES, The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany (first place winner, Council for Wisconsin Writers and Midwest Independent Publishers Association), terrified villagers were trapped in a farm...

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  The Ghosts of the Garfagnana
  

  • May-2019
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  Strange things are known to happen in the rugged Garfagnana region of Tuscany. A friendly ghost in a monastery. A visit from a soldier from the other side. A village that sleeps for a hundred years. The legend of ghosts in the theater. All these make...

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  Stefano and the Tuscan Piazza
  

  • May-2020
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  WHEN STEFANO AND THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLES was published a few years ago, it was praised as “a touching and richly told piece that invites you to pull up a chair and listen in to a trove of family stories filled with tradition and insight.” Another ...

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  A Tuscan Treasury
  

  • Jul-2021
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  FROM WWI TO COVID, from Florence to the tiny villages of Tuscany, stories of love, courage and adventure from award-winning author Paul Salsini.FROM A TUSCAN TREASURY"So we became spies. When Maria and I would enter a village we would find out if the...

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Award-Winning Books by Paul Salsini

The Temptation of Father Lorenzo: Ten Stories of 1970s Tuscany
2013 Midwest Book Award (MIPA) -- Fiction-Short Stories