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📘 The sixteen pleasures by Robert Hellenga

When the Arno River swells in 1966, Italian volunteers dubbed the foreign rescuers "Mud Angels." Among them is Margot Harrington, an American who finds refuge in a Carmelite convent’s flooded archives. Inside, she uncovers a priceless volume of sixteen erotic poems and drawings. Attracting the attention of a mysterious lover, Margot is drawn into a clandestine quest centered on the contraband anthology. The journey tests her boundaries and compels her to confront feelings of loss, spiritual longing, and earthly desire as she navigates forbidden love and the preservation of cultural treasures.

First publish date: 1994

Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction

Authors: Robert Hellenga

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