The Scent of Lemon Leaves Neapolitan The Missing of the Somme

The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance

and work is thin on the ground

downtrodden people

It is also a striking meditation on the nature of truth

The Scent of Lemon Leaves Neapolitan The Missing of the SommeHaving left her job and boyfriend, thirty year old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with stimulating company and take the place of the grandparents she never had. However, when she meets Julin, a former concentration camp inmate who has just returned to Europe from Argentina, she discovers