"To the list of epic star-crossed lovers, add the names Gerda and Vito. Like Romeo and Juliet, like Ennis and Jack, the romance at the center of Italian author Francesca Melandri’s novel “Eva Sleeps” (Europa, $18) is ill-fated thanks to politics, geography and family ties...Melandri maintains just the right balance between love story and historical meditation, making this a narrative to be shared between generations, between men and women, Europeans and Americans alike. In other words, a classic."
Read the full review in The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
