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Rome

This ancient and beautiful city and its outskirts provide the setting for the novel.

San Lorenzo

This is a working-class district of a major city, where the protagonist lives.

Pietralata

This was the location for the small and cheap refugee dwellings built for the poor and disenfranchised.

Ghetto

This is the Jewish-Italian neighborhood where the protagonist does some of her food shopping, and where some of her friends live.

Air Raids

When these occur, many people go to shelters, but others don't bother because they think they are protected by God.

Via Bodoni

This is where the protagonist lives, in her own house, after the German occupation is over.

Mantua

This is where one of the characters goes to live in the home of his deceased family.

Axis and Allies

These were the major powers at war with one another in World War II.

Genocide

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