First Энца and Чиро met yet children under very sad circumstances, on a background stately Italian Alps. Чиро is a semiorphan, that lives at a nunnery, and Энца is senior daughter in long and very poor family. They do not complain on a fate and ready to labours and adversities, mainly - not to part with near people and with such wonderful mountains. But a fate will boss differently - quite both force children to abandon a motherland and to leave over ocean to incomprehensible and intimidating America. So history of their lives, complete quite unexpected turns, temptations, adversities, happy instants, friendship and great love, begins. They will have to meet and part yet several times, they will understand before, that a fate not for nothing tunes meeting to them, and if there is something in life, able to manage with a melancholy on native Italy, so it is love."Wife of shoe-maker" it is epic history of love that lay through two continents and two world wars, through brilliance and poverty of New York and pacifying beauty of Italy, through long separations and short meeting.More interesting facts about work of author read inKnow about the best novels of 2021 from our article in