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Vittorio Sermonti

Born 1929 · Italy

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    Strega 2016 · Shortlist

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    Title translated by AI:“If They Had”

    Vittorio Sermonti · 87 when first published

    Novel · 210 pages · Historical, Autofiction, War

    AI-generated summary:One May morning in 1945, partisans come to a house in Milan looking for a Fascist officer, talk at length and leave. From that episode a fifteen-year-old brother's memories unspool over seventy years.