Thank you for choosing to read this book. Bolzano was especially fun for me to write and to bring Annamarie to life. She has been one vivacious character for me, and I knew, after I wrote that first chapter with her, what would become of her. It is a journey I hope you plan to take with me in the next two books.
A reader has requested that I list what is fact and what is fiction in these novels. I have taken this a step further and have decided to also list the most common foreign words used in the book as well as other “behind-the-scenes” titbits. You can find them a guide to the Reschen Valley series on www.inktreks.com.
I hope this will help dispel any further confusion, and I have also provided links to maps for the location of this series.
Two more books follow in this series. Two Fatherlands will continue directly from this point onward. The historical backdrop is the agreement that Hitler and Mussolini made to provide the Tyroleans an “option”: either become citizens of the Third Reich or choose to be Italian. The chaos that followed was mostly due to propaganda and misinformation (fake news, if you will), and it tore entire families apart. If there is one open and gaping wound left exposed in today’s South Tyrol, it is this, caused by the terrible choices presented by two tyrannic governments.
After Two Fatherlands, I will be writing The Rising, which will be solely Annamarie’s story. The historical backdrop will include a terrorist cell that took to blowing up pylons and—once again—causing conflict in the little-known history of South Tyrol.
Two Fatherlands is already on pre-order with a release set for April 2021. The Rising will follow in 2022. Follow me on www.
Servus!
Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Vorarlberg, Austria
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