In English
Strega 2014 · Shortlist
Life in Peacetime
La vita in tempo di pace
Francesco Pecoraro · 68 when first published
Novel · 664 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:On 29 May 2015, a disillusioned sixty-nine-year-old engineer flies home from Egypt, where he works on a synthetic replacement for the dying coral reef. On the flight his mind travels back through seventy years of Italian life.