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Pietro Spirito

Born 1961 · Italy

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    Strega 2003 · Shortlist

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    Title translated by AI:“We Hoped for More”

    Pietro Spirito · 42 when first published

    Novel · 188 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Just after the Second World War a strange figure settles in a village at the foot of the mountains in the Veneto: a former Japanese soldier who, learning that his city, Hiroshima, has been destroyed, decides never to go home.