Sandra Sabatini

7:30 PM

DANTE’S WAR is a tender, dramatic novel, exploring the cost of war on the ordinary people who fought on different fronts: in the vast wasteland of North Africa, and in the green hills of Nazi-occupied Italy. Dante and Angelina, two young lovers who meet on the eve of Dante’s deployment to North Africa, fight to survive the Second World War. While Dante becomes an accomplished mechanic, working on German fighter planes, Angelina contends with the presence of German soldiers in her own small town, and the evil that they introduce into her world. Apart, they must both find the strength to endure, and to stay alive in order to find each other again.

SANDRA SABATINI's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and journals. The title story from her collection The Dolphins at Sainte-Marie was shortlisted for the Journey Prize.