I will stay here

Number of pages: 256 When war reaches a certain place, or a flood occurs, the residents flee. At least that's what most people do; but not Trina. In 1939, a poetic mountain village in South Tyrol in Italy faces its toughest challenge, as Mussolini's fascist government offers German-speaking residents the choice between emigrating to Germany and remaining in Italy as second-class citizens. Teacher Trina, with her husband Erich, chooses her village and her home. And when the fascists prevent her from working, she continues to secretly teach children in basements and barns. When the government decides to build a dam that will flood homes and fields, Trina resists with all she has. A warm and intense novel, not only presenting us with the history of a small community facing a major disaster, but also, brilliantly, depicting the character of an ordinary woman who bravely and steadfastly resisted the forces of evil that controlled the fate of the world.