Francesco Piccolo

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• Il desiderio di essere come tutti

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  Strega 2014 · ★ Winner

  Il desiderio di essere come tutti

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Desire to Be Like Everyone”

  Francesco Piccolo · 49 when first published

  Novel · 264 pages · Autofiction, Politics, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:Through Berlinguer's funeral, the Moro kidnapping and twenty years of Berlusconi, a man retraces how he became himself, telling his own coming of age alongside the story of the Italian left.

• Allegro occidentale

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  Strega 2004 · Shortlist

  Allegro occidentale

  AITitle translated by AI:“Western Allegro”

  Francesco Piccolo · 39 when first published

  Novel · 241 pages · Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:Mister Piccolo, a writer and journalist, is invited to see the world with eight colleagues. From the moment he boards a business-class flight to Sri Lanka he discovers that privilege is the one place that makes every other place the same.