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Down the Coaltown Road : a novel

Down the Coaltown Road : a novel

Book 2002

After Mussolini took Italy into the war on the side of Hitler in 1940, Italian men in Canada were rounded up and interred in camps, some for as long as three years. The police seize Tomassio, an Italian immigrant who works in the coal mine, but later that night Tomassio vaults over a wall and escapes.