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The Fall of a Sparrow

The Fall of a Sparrow

Author(s): Robert Hellenga

Location(s): Bologna

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1980s

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The centre of the story and the events and emotions in the characters lives’ is the death of Cookie in the Bologna train bomb in 1980. It chronicles the family’s struggle to heal itself after the death.

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A bomb destroys an Italian train station in 1980, and with it, the daughter of American classics professor Alan Woodhull. What follows is the who gamut of human emotions that really pulled me in....

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