Marina, Marina

At the start of the 1960s, the pop song “Marina” won the hearts of the Italians and the whole world. Young Nino from the coastal village of Sant’Amato on the Riviera understands the song only too well for he too, albeit in secret and therefore all the more, worships a Marina: the beautiful wife of the barber and the mother of his best friend. However, Marina begins a passionate affair with a man whose identity Nino only discovers many summers later. Until then, fate weaves its threads: Nino’s aunt fulfils a long-held dream, his father’s cousin falls in love with a German holidaymaker and even Marina’s secret love does not remain without consequence. Accompanied by the season’s hits, the reader witnesses life and love in Sant’Amato as well as tragedies whose roots are found far back into Italian history and that change the life of its inhabitants forever.