Used book – Livia Grandi ou le souffle du destin, Theresa Révay

Venice, Italy, 1945. Livia, 20, inherits the famous Grandi Glassworks. She is determined to restore them to their former glory, at any cost.

Wahrstein, Bohemia, 1945. Hanna, a young German woman, must abandon the family workshop where glass has been worked for centuries. For her daughter, born of rape, she will build a home in exile, far from her native land.

The destinies of these two women intersect in a torn Europe. Driven by the same passion for the ancestral alliance of earth and fire, both will find their place in a man's world, that of master glassmakers...

"This is the fascinating work of a novelist with no shortage of breath." Pierre-Robert Leclercq – Le Monde des Livres