Fic­tion

The Lost Catacomb

  • From the Publisher
May 22, 2014

The Lost Cat­a­com­b’s mul­ti­ple time­line moves seam­less­ly across the cen­turies, from the ear­ly Roman Empire to the present and to World War II, where it weaves togeth­er three inter­faith love sto­ries against the back­drop of the Holo­caust in Italy. Fear­less­ly explor­ing evi­dence of the role of the Catholic Church in the depor­ta­tion of the Jews of Rome and the Vat­i­can Rat­lines that assist­ed Nazis in flee­ing from jus­tice, the nov­el also spec­u­lates about the pos­si­ble loca­tion of stolen Jew­ish art­work and reli­gious arti­facts. Against the panora­ma of these larg­er themes, the hero­ine’s search for her elu­sive fam­i­ly roots in Rome becomes a metaphor for what brought her to Italy — name­ly an invi­ta­tion from the Vat­i­can to uncov­er the secrets of a lost cat­a­comb of enig­mat­ic provenance.

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