Author: matteorighetto

In this exhilarating coming-of-age tale set in the late 19th century, a daring young woman braves the wilds of the mountainous Austrian-Italian border–and the dangerous men who conspired with her missing father to smuggle tobacco–in order to save her family. Jole de Boer is just fifteen years old the first time she accompanies her father–a tobacco grower named Augusto–as he smuggles his … smuggles his product across the Italian border into Austria. She knows the dangers of the treacherous high mountain passes–border guards, brigands, wild animals, ferocious weather–but she is proud that her father has asked her to join him.…