An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war and one girls quest forrevenge and healing from the author of the acclaimed international bestsellerSilk When... » 

An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war and one girls quest forrevenge and healing from the author of the acclaimed international bestsellerSilk When in an unnamed place and time Manuel Rocas enemies hunt himdown to kill him they fail to discover Nina his youngest child hidden in ahole beneath his farmhouse floor. After this carnage Tito one of themurderers discovers Ninas trapdoor. Enthralled by the sight of Ninas perfectinnocence he keeps quiet. By the time she has grown up Ninas innocence willhave bloomed into something else altogether and one by one the wartime hunterswill become the peacetime hunted. But not until a striking old woman calls upona familiar old man selling newspapers in town can we know what Nina willultimately make of her brutal legacy. «