Greenwood (Italian Edition)

"Jake" Greenwood, a naturalist guide, leads wealthy eco-tourists through the lush forests of an island in British Columbia, which curiously – a coincidence? – bears her name. Without roots or a family, one day Jake comes into possession of her grandmother's diary, an unexpected aid that allows her to reconstruct her past. Like circling the circumference of an ancient tree, one ring after another, she is finally able to traverse the time that has been, the years that have accumulated like wood: layer upon layer. Reading those pages, Jake realizes that even her existence rests on invisible layers, enclosed in the lives of those who came before her, in the series of crimes and miracles, coincidences and choices that led to her: each layer is the consequence of another, just as every success and disaster are preserved forever.

Tracing back through the 20th century, she will discover that what unites all the members of the Greenwood dynasty since the distant 1908 – when the lineage took root following a head-on collision between two trains – is precisely the forest. With their silent pulsing, the trees offer refuge, but also guard crimes, extreme decisions, sacrifices, and mistakes.

As imposing, compelling, and brilliantly structured as the concentric rings of a trunk, The Greenwoods stages the intertwining of lies, omissions, and half-truths that mark the origins of every family, a tangle of secrets and betrayals that falls on four generations united in the destiny of Canada's forests.

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