![]() ![]() ![]() Pino finds a new sense of importance while helping the refugees escape the Nazis and determines that he will do what he can to fight the Nazis in the war.īefore too long, Michele calls him back to Milan. While at Casa Alpina, Father Re, the priest who looks after the school, enlists Pino to help Italian refugees escape the Nazis to Switzerland. Ascari teaches Pino how to drive and in exchange, Pino teaches Ascari how to ski. Pino is reluctant to go to Casa Alpina but quickly befriends Alberto Ascari, a boy who lives in a town not far from Casa Alpina. Michele decides to send Pino to Casa Alpina to wait out the war. When Pino and his father return to Milan one morning after a night of bombing, the Lellas’ apartment has been reduced to rubble. Pino’s mother, Porzia, and sister, Cicci, have evacuated to another city, and Pino’s father, Michele, has sent Pino’s brother, Mimo, to Casa Alpina, a boarding school north of Milan near the Alps. Pino and his family leave the city at night and return in the morning to increased destruction as Milan is bombed. The novel begins on the first night of the Allied bombing of Milan, Italy: June 9, 1943. ![]()
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