Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal
Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her
husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy
in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events brought
her close to the old people of the village and they began to tell
her their stories. Of how their village had been trapped in an
archaic feudal system and owned by a local padrone who demanded his
share of all they had, of the eruption of the Second World War, of
the conflict between the fascists and the partisans, of death and
fear and hunger of how they hid like like foxes in the mountains.
'Write it down for us,' they said, 'because otherwise it will all
be lost.' Thin Paths is a celebration of the songlines of one place
that could be many places and a celebration of the humour and
determination of the human spirit.
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