In early September, Cristina spends a few days tidying a centuries-old mountain lodge inherited from her elderly great-aunt. She still hasn’t decided whether to keep it or sell it: the village to which it belongs is inhabited only in summer and the girl, every evening, is forced to go back to town. She wasn’t able to spend not even one night there, and it seems impossible to live in it in total solitude, as her aunt Terzilia had done for years. Nothing, indeed, not even the reassuring presence of her two pets, a dog and a cat, can dampen the…
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