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The Flames of the Balkans by Donato

Valerio Di Donato tells The Flames of the Balkans

Love and war, past and present, alternate in a story that draws inspiration from the tragedies that have crossed the Balkans, tragedies that Ivan and Mirna's intense love story will try to find a way out of. A review Having retired after years of journalism as a correspondent for "Il Giornale di Brescia", Valerio Di Donato has put his experience to good use, especially that in the context of the war in the Balkans, to write a novel "Le fiamme dei Balcani", published by Oltre Edizioni, which tells a long bloody story that begins in Istria, in the years of the Second World War with the tragedy of the Istrian exodus and with the...