Girl #37

One phone call. One Nazi soldier's ID card found. And in it, a single handwritten sentence that in 2019 will stir a literal storm in the heart of its young finder: Hannah, girl no. 37. G. Wolf.

The name Wolf suddenly rises to the surface as a basic clue. Through it, Hannah delves into the fate of her eponymous grandmother, who lived through World War II in Nazi-occupied Italy as a child and never shared this family odyssey with her granddaughter.

For Hannah, the past and the present collide in a single city: in Florence, the city of bridges over the Arno River, which in 1944 witnessed the atrocities and barbarities committed by the Nazis. However, it was also a place where brave men and women saved not only the lives of endangered Jews, partisans and anyone who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, but also precious artistic monuments and cultural heritage.

A brave few who brought an imaginary ray of light into the darkness of a raging war.
A novel brimming with a passionate love of life, it brings to light, at a gripping pace, the forgotten fate of Gerhard Wolf, the German consul in Italy, and events whose consequences can be seen as a warning even today. It is also a tribute to a man who, despite the risks, helped everyone around him and saved the Ponte Vecchio, the most famous bridge in Florence, from destruction.