Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2013, 15:13
Bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian had long been searching for a way to write a book set in Tuscany during World War Two, but it wasn`t until his daughter performed in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that all the pieces came together. The result was ‘The Light in the Ruins’, a tale centering on the doomed love between an Italian woman from a noble family and the German soldier she comes to know during the period in 1944 when Tuscany, as Bohjalian puts it, ‘became an innermost ring of Dante`s Inferno’.