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    612-822-4611

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The Archbishop's Lover

The Archbishop's Lover

Rocco, Agostino

Paperback

Gifts & Stationery General

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ISBN13: 9798180851895
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A wonderful, powerful, unforgettable love story. Luca and Laura meet during a summer that seems suspended outside of time. In a sun-drenched Sardinia, among junipers, myrtle, and lavender, facing the crystalline sea of Palau, an absolute love is born, the kind that arrives without asking permission and changes the fate of two lives forever. Laura has restless eyes, a strength that is both luminous and fragile. Luca already carries within him a deeper restlessness: the call of a vocation he can't yet name, but which pierces him like a wound and a promise. That summer becomes their perfect time. Every gesture, every word, every silence seems destined to last beyond the season. But when autumn arrives, Luca realizes that the path he feels before him does not lead to Laura. It is a choice that tears him apart. There is no betrayal, no guilt: there is only the strength of a calling that demands everything. And everything also means giving up the woman he loves. The years pass. Luca enters the seminary, becomes a priest, then a bishop. His intelligence, his moral rigor, and his ability to listen carry him ever higher into the Church's leadership. He is a respected public figure, a man who speaks of faith, conscience, and mercy. But in his most secret place, he continues to cherish the memory of Laura: the scent of jasmine on his lips, the warm wind blowing from Africa, that fragment of youth left intact like an ember beneath the ashes. Laura, too, has built her own life. She has known pain, loss, and necessary choices. She has learned to live with the absence of that man she has never truly forgotten. Yet time does not erase everything: sometimes it simply buries what continues to live. Many years later, when Luca is now a man who has reached the pinnacle of ecclesiastical power, an unexpected event reopens the past. Laura reappears. It is not a sentimental return, nor a belated illusion. It is the definitive confrontation with what they have both lost and with what, despite everything, remains. In a private meeting, locked in the studio where silence weighs more than words, Luca faces the question that has plagued his entire existence: can one give one's life to God without leaving an essential part of oneself unfinished? Between memory, faith, desire, and renunciation, Luca and Laura is the novel of an impossible but never-ending love. A story about the price of radical choices, about time that transforms but does not erase, and about that secret part of the soul that no calling, no power, and no destiny can truly extinguish.

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