Across the River and Into the Trees

Now a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Josh Hutcherson!**A poignant post-WWII tale of a revitalizing love found too late that follows the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured, aging American colonel in Italy--a love story that inspires light and hope, while only darkness lies ahead.*In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the world-weary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees* stands as Hemingway's melanchoic yet resolute statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War.