OF TRIUMPH
AND SOLITUDE
Piero went back for his cigarettes. When he returned, his brother-in-law had lost an arm and an eye. That was Egypt, 1940. He was seventeen.
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AND SOLITUDE
Piero went back for his cigarettes. When he returned, his brother-in-law had lost an arm and an eye. That was Egypt, 1940. He was seventeen.
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A.G. Pope is the daughter of an Italian-Libyan father and a South American mother whose family fled Spain to escape Jewish persecution. She grew up between cultures and histories. Her father is the baby born in her debut novel's final pages.
Of Triumph and Solitude draws on a decade of archival research and travel in Italy and North Africa into the 1940–41 campaign and Italian POW life. She holds a B.A. in Modern Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar.
She lives in California.
The Novel
Of Triumph and Solitude
by A.G. Pope
A literary historical novel based on the true story of her grandfather, an Italian soldier captured in World War II North Africa. Debut novel. Currently seeking representation.